Rolling droplets
- 1 September 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 11 (9), 2449-2453
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.870107
Abstract
A droplet of nonwetting viscous liquid moves on an inclined plane by rolling along it. We give a scaling law for the uniform speed of such a droplet. We then analyze the flow in the contact region and show that the classical stress singularity at the contact line is alleviated in this case.Keywords
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