Journal article
Finite element method for free-surface flows of incompressible fluids in three dimensions, part II, dynamic wetting lines;international journal for numerical methods in fluids
Scientific and technical aerospace reports, Vol.37
19 Jul 1999
Abstract
To date, few researchers have solved three-dimensional free-surface problems with dynamic wetting lines. This paper extends the free-surface finite element method described in a companion paper (Cairncross, R.A., P.R. Schunk, T.A. Baer, P.A. Sackinger, R.R. Rao), 'A finite element method for free surface flows of incompressible fluid in three dimensions, Part I: Boundary-Fitted mesh motion', to be published (1998) to handle dynamic wetting. A generalization of the technique used in two dimensional modeling to circumvent double-valued velocities at the wetting line, the so-called kinematic paradox, is presented for a wetting line in three dimensions. This approach requires the fluid velocity normal to the contact line to be zero, the fluid velocity tangent to the contact line to be equal to the tangential component of web velocity, and the fluid velocity into the web to be zero. In addition, slip is allowed in a narrow strip along the substrate surface near the dynamic contact line. For realistic wetting-line motion, a contact angle which varies with wetting speed is required because contact lines in three dimensions typically advance or recede a different rates depending upon location and/or have both advancing and receding portions. The theory is applied to capillary rise of static fluid in a corner, the initial motion of a Newtonian droplet down an inclined plane, and extrusion of a Newtonian fluid from a nozzle onto a moving substrate. The extrusion results are compared to experimental visualization.
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- Title
- Finite element method for free-surface flows of incompressible fluids in three dimensions, part II, dynamic wetting lines;international journal for numerical methods in fluids
- Creators
- T BaerR CairncrossR RaoP SackingerP Schunk
- Publication Details
- Scientific and technical aerospace reports, Vol.37
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Identifiers
- 991019295203004721