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Adhesive forces in droplet kinetic friction
Glen McHale, Sara Janahi, Hernán Barrio-Zhang +4
Kinetic frictional forces resisting droplet motion often appear to be separate to surface wettability and adhesive forces. Here we show that such friction arises from a simple comb…
Multiple Equilibria Enables Tunable Wetting of Droplets on Patterned Liquid Surfaces
Xitong Zhang, Hongyu Zhao, Jack R. Panter +4
Patterning solid surfaces with varying wettability is important to manage droplets in microfluidics, heat transfer and printing. Solid surface roughness poses fundamental limitatio…
Capillary imbibition in lubricant coated channels
Sergi G. Leyva, Ignacio Pagonabarraga, Aurora Hernández-Machado +1
Capillary imbibition underpins many processes of fundamental and applied relevance in fluid mechanics. A limitation to the flow is the coupling to the confining solid, which induce…
Control of droplet evaporation on smooth chemical patterns
Michael Ewetola, Rodrigo Ledesma-Aguilar, Marc Pradas
We investigate the evaporation of a two-dimensional droplet on a solid surface. The solid is flat but with smooth chemical variations that lead to a space-dependent local contact a…
Self-Propelled Droplet Transport on Shaped-Liquid Surfaces
Gaby Launay, Muhammad Subkhi Sadullah, Glen McHale +3
The transport of small quantities of liquid on a solid surface is inhibited by the resistance to motion caused by the contact between the liquid and the solid. To overcome such res…
Lattice-Boltzmann simulations of electrowetting phenomena
Élfego Ruiz-Gutiérrez, Rodrigo Ledesma-Aguilar
We present a lattice-Boltzmann method that can simulate the coupled hydrodynamics and electrostatics equations of motion of a two-phase fluid as a means to model electrowetting phe…