On the displacement of three-dimensional fluid droplets from solid surfaces in low-Reynolds-number shear flows

DOI10.1017/S0022112098002985zbMath0943.76020OpenAlexW2143516187MaRDI QIDQ4248060

P. Dimitrakopoulos, J. J. L. Higdon

Publication date: 5 September 2000

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112098002985

zbMATH Keywords

Newton's methodyield conditioncontact angle hysteresisinterfacial forcesnonlinear optimization problemcapillary numbercritical shear ratespectral boundary element methodconstant surface tensionlow-Reynolds number shear flowsmaximum flow rate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Boundary element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M15) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45)

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