Wetting dynamics in two-liquid systems: Effect of the surrounding phase viscosity

Physical Review. E
P BazaziS H Hejazi

Abstract

This paper reports the experimental results of a water droplet spreading on a glass substrate submerged in an oil phase. The radius of the wetted area grows exponentially over time forming two distinct regimes. The early time dynamics of wetting is characterized with the time exponent of 1, referred to as the viscous regime, which is ultimately transitioned to the Tanner's regime with the time exponent of 0.1. It is revealed that an increase in the ambient phase viscosity over three decades considerably slows down the rate of three-phase contact line movement. A scaling law is developed where the three-phase contact line velocity is a function of both spreading radius and mean viscosity, close to the geometric mean of the droplet and ambient fluids' viscosities. Using the proposed scaling and mean viscosity, all plots of spreading radius for different viscosity ratios collapse to a master curve. Furthermore, several cases with multiple rupture and spreading points, i.e., wetting in a nonideal system, are considered. The growth of an equivalent wetting radius in a multiple point spreading system is predicted by the developed scaling law.

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