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Weak-inertial effects on destabilized receding contact lines
Phys. Rev. Fluids 9, 084006 – Published 28 August, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.9.084006
Abstract
It is known that, beyond a critical speed, the straight contact line of a partially -wetting liquid destabilizes into a corner. One of the earliest theoretical works exploring this phenomenon [Limat and Stone, Europhys. Lett. 65, 365 (2004)] elicited a self-similar conical structure of the interface in the viscous regime. However, noting that inertia is not expected to be negligible at contact line speeds close to and beyond the critical value for many common liquids, we provide the leading-order inertial correction to their solution. In particular, we find the self-similar corrections to the interface shape as well as the flow field, and also determine their scaling with the capillary number. We find that inertia invariably modifies the interface into a cusplike shape with an increased film thickness. Furthermore, when incorporating contact line dynamics into the model, resulting in a narrowing of the corner as the contact line speed increases, we still observe an overall increase in the inertial contribution with speed despite the increased confinement.
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