Electrostatic suppression of the "coffee stain effect"

The dynamics of a slender, evaporating, particle-laden droplet under the effect of electric fields are examined. Lubrication theory is used to reduce the governing equations to a coupled system of evolution equations for the interfacial position and the local, depth-averaged particle concentration....

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Veröffentlicht in:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1992. - 30(2014), 20 vom: 27. Mai, Seite 5849-58
1. Verfasser: Wray, Alexander W (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Papageorgiou, Demetrios T, Craster, Richard V, Sefiane, Khellil, Matar, Omar K
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2014
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:The dynamics of a slender, evaporating, particle-laden droplet under the effect of electric fields are examined. Lubrication theory is used to reduce the governing equations to a coupled system of evolution equations for the interfacial position and the local, depth-averaged particle concentration. The model incorporates the effects of capillarity, viscous stress, Marangoni stress, elecrostatically induced Maxwell stress, van der Waals forces, concentration-dependent rheology, and evaporation. Via a parametric numerical study, the one-dimensional model is shown to recover the expected inhomogeneous ring-like structures in appropriate parameter ranges due to a combination of enhanced evaporation close to the contact line, and resultant capillarity-induced flow. It is then demonstrated that this effect can be significantly suppressed via the use of carefully chosen electric fields. Finally, the three-dimensional behavior of the film and the particle concentration field is briefly examined
Beschreibung:Date Completed 13.04.2015
Date Revised 27.05.2014
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1520-5827
DOI:10.1021/la500805d