Journal
JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
Volume 854, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2018.702
Keywords
contact lines; drops
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- National Nature Science Foundation of China [11425210, 11621202, 11672288, 11702288]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB22040103]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
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We numerically study the impact of a compound drop on a hydrophobic substrate using a ternary-fluid diffuse-interface method, aiming to understand how the presence of the inner droplet affects the spreading dynamics and maximal spreading of the compound drop. First, it is interesting to see that the numerical results for an impacting pure drop agree well with the universal rescaling of maximal spreading ratio proposed by Lee et al. (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 786, 2016, R4). Second, two flow regimes have been identified for an impacting compound drop: namely jammed spreading and joint rim formation. The maximal spreading ratio of the compound drop is found to depend on the volume fraction of the inner droplet alpha, the surface tension ratio gamma, the Weber number and the flow regime. Moreover, we propose a universal rescaling of maximal spreading ratio for compound drops, by integrating the one for pure drops with a corrected Weber number that takes alpha, gamma and the flow regime into account. The predictions of the universal rescaling are in good agreement with the numerical results for impacting compound drops.
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