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Instability and dripping of electrified liquid films flowing down inverted substrates

R. J. Tomlin1,2,*, R. Cimpeanu2,3,4, and D. T. Papageorgiou2

  • 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
  • 2Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
  • 3Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
  • 4Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

  • *ruben.tomlin11@imperial.ac.uk
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 5, 013703 – Published 29 January, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.013703

Abstract

We consider the gravity-driven flow of a perfect dielectric, viscous, thin liquid film, wetting a flat substrate inclined at a nonzero angle to the horizontal. The dynamics of the thin film is influenced by an electric field which is set up parallel to the substrate surface—this nonlocal physical mechanism has a linearly stabilizing effect on the interfacial dynamics. Our particular interest is in fluid films that are hanging from the underside of the substrate; these films may drip depending on physical parameters, and we investigate whether a sufficiently strong electric field can suppress such nonlinear phenomena. For a non-electrified flow, it was observed by Brun et al. [Phys. Fluids 27, 084107 (2015)] that the thresholds of linear absolute instability and dripping are reasonably close. In the present study, we incorporate an electric field and analyze the absolute and convective instabilities of a hierarchy of reduced-order models to predict the dripping limit in parameter space. The spatial stability results for the reduced-order models are verified by performing an impulse-response analysis with direct numerical simulations (DNS) of the Navier–Stokes equations coupled to the appropriate electrical equations. Guided by the results of the linear theory, we perform DNS on extended domains with inflow and outflow conditions (mimicking an experimental setup) to investigate the dripping limit for both non-electrified and electrified liquid films. For the latter, we find that the absolute instability threshold provides an order-of-magnitude estimate for the electric-field strength required to suppress dripping; the linear theory may thus be used to determine the feasibility of dripping suppression given a set of geometrical, fluid, and electrical parameters.

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No-Drip Films

Published 29 January, 2020

The drips that form from a hanging layer of oil or paint might be avoided with the application of an electric field.

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 5, 013703– Published 29 January, 2020
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