A condition for spontaneous capillary flow in open microgrooves

DOI10.1007/S00707-022-03289-1zbMath1498.76015OpenAlexW4293192307MaRDI QIDQ2083819

Bernhard Jakoby, Kurt Hingerl, Tina Mitteramskogler

Publication date: 11 October 2022

Published in: Acta Mechanica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-022-03289-1

zbMATH Keywords

critical contact angleGaussian groovelenticular grooveminimal Gibbs energytwo-dimensional Young-Laplace equationV-groove

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45)

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• A fast numerical procedure for steady capillary flow in open channels
• Capillary surfaces. Shape -- stability -- dynamics, in particular under weightlessness. With a foreword by Ulf Merbold.
• On the Lambert \(w\) function
• On the stability of liquid ridges
• The Surface Evolver

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