Wetting Dynamics in an Angular Channel
- 19 September 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Langmuir
- Vol. 37 (38), 11276-11280
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c01755
Abstract
We analyze the dynamics of liquid filling in a thin, slightly inflated rectangular channel driven by capillary forces. We show that although the amount of liquid m in the channel increases in time following the classical Lucas-Washburn law, m ∝ t1/2, the prefactor is very sensitive to the deformation of the channel because the filling takes place by the growth of two parts, the bulk part (where the cross section is completely filled by the liquid), and the finger part (where the cross section is partially filled). We calculate the time dependence of m accounting for the coupling between the two parts and show that the prefactor for the filling can be reduced significantly by a slight deformation of the rectangular channel, e.g., the prefactor is reduced 50% for a strain of 0.1%. This offers an explanation for the large deviation on the value of the prefactor reported previously.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (21774004)
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