Investigation of flow dynamics of thin viscous films down differently shaped fibers
Investigation of flow dynamics of thin viscous films down differently shaped fibers
复制标题
不同形状纤维上粘性薄膜的流动动力学研究
DOI:
10.1063/5.0069189
复制
发表时间:
2021-11
影响因子:
4
通讯作者:
Chen Xue
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Xie Qirui;Liu Rong;Wang Xun;Chen Xue
The flow dynamics of a thin viscous film down on a fiber is associated with a variety of industrial applications. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the flow behaviors of a thin film falling on differently shaped fibers. For a spiral fiber, flow behaviors show three typical flow regimes as the cylindrical fiber, which indicates the isolated regime, Rayleigh–Plateau regime, and convective regime. However, the transition process of various fiber shapes is distinctively different. Unlike the cylindrical fiber, flow on a spiral fiber exhibits a wider range of flow rate in the Rayleigh–Plateau regime, which is helpful for the precise control of flow patterns in a relatively stable regime. We further quantitatively investigate three important characteristic parameters of flow dynamics of a spiral fiber, i.e., bead velocity, thickness, and spacing. Results reveal that a thin film on a spiral fiber has a higher bead velocity, larger bead thickness, and larger bead spacing. Our findings provide important insights for understanding flow dynamics of a thin viscous film down on shaped fibers, which may also inspire coating flow control methods in various applications. Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0069189 Thin liquid film flowing down vertical fibers is a typical unstable flow problem, and it breaks into liquid beads or drops due to the Rayleigh–Plateau instability. The rich dynamics of a thin viscous film down on a fiber is widely used in various industrial applications such as coating technology, heat exchangers, and vapor absorption. Among these applications, controlling the flow behaviors in a regular wave pattern is highly demanding. For example, controlling the coating flow with constant speed and constant spacing is an effective strategy for coating and photocuring the periodic wave pattern on a fiber. Therefore, it is of great importance to understand the flow dynamics of a thin viscous film down on a fiber. When a liquid film falls down a vertical fiber, the gravity-driven flow exhibits complex interfacial dynamics, including the droplet formation and traveling wave patterns. The flow behavior was first demonstrated by Qu er e, who investigated the film rupture characteristics and drop formation in both thick-film and thin-film systems. Kliakhandler et al. observed three typical flow regimes with increasing flow rates: (a) the isolated droplet regime, where widely spaced traveling beads are separated by small droplets, (b) the Rayleigh–Plateau regime, where a traveling wave propagates with constant speed and spacing, and (c) the convective regime, where faster and larger falling droplets are occasional collision. For the traveling wave behaviors, Duprat et al. used spatiotemporal diagrams to illustrate the absolute and convective instabilities, where the spatial growth is emphasized. Other experimental results show that the flow dynamics in such systems are mainly influenced by the flow rate, fiber diameter, and other fluid properties, e.g., the viscosity and surface tension. In addition, Sadeghpour et al. found that the nozzle geometry also changes the flow dynamics, where the liquid bead thickness, spacing, and velocity are used to characterize its dynamics. The viscous film coating a fiber has been intensively studied in recent years. For a thin film coating flow, simple models based on the long-wave assumption were utilized to investigate the linear and nonlinear dynamics. It has been demonstrated that the flow is unstable due to the azimuthal curvature. Liu and Ding proposed a domain mapping method to solve the Navier–Stokes equations directly, by which the exact steady traveling wave solutions of a thick liquid film are explored. Recently, the effects of applied physical fields on coating flows have been extensively considered. For example, flow with thermocapillary effects, subject to electric fields, rotation fields, and disjoining pressure fields, has proven to be an effective approach to control the stability and dynamics of coating flows. The results showed that applied physical fields may trigger film breakup into droplets due to the enhancement of absolute instability. Appl. Phys. Lett. 119, 201601 (2021); doi: 10.1063/5.0069189 119, 201601-1 Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing Applied Physics Letters ARTICLE scitation.org/journal/apl
登录
查看更多内容
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
Liyan Yu;J. Hinch
通讯作者:
Liyan Yu;J. Hinch
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
Liu Rong;Ding Zijing
通讯作者:
Ding Zijing
DOI:
10.1016/j.matpr.2021.01.929
发表时间:
2021-03
期刊:
Materials Today: Proceedings
影响因子:
--
作者:
Rahul Sathyanath;Sreeram K. Kalpathy
通讯作者:
Rahul Sathyanath;Sreeram K. Kalpathy
影响因子:
1.8
作者:
D. Quéré
通讯作者:
D. Quéré
影响因子:
9.9
作者:
Sreeram K. Kalpathy;L. Francis;Satish Kumar
通讯作者:
Sreeram K. Kalpathy;L. Francis;Satish Kumar