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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Volume 26, Issue -, Pages 671-719Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0956792515000364
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Thin films; surface-tension driven flows; evaporation; condensation; matched asymptotic expansions
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- [KUK-C1-013-04]
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We investigate the effect of mass transfer on the evolution of a thin, two-dimensional, partially wetting drop. While the effects of viscous dissipation, capillarity, slip and uniform mass transfer are taken into account, other effects, such as gravity, surface tension gradients, vapour transport and heat transport, are neglected in favour of mathematical tractability. Our focus is on a matched-asymptotic analysis in the small-slip limit, which reveals that the leading-order outer formulation and contact-line law depend delicately on both the sign and the size of the mass transfer flux. This leads, in particular, to novel generalisations of Tanner's law. We analyse the resulting evolution of the drop on the timescale of mass transfer and validate the leading-order predictions by comparison with preliminary numerical simulations. Finally, we outline the generalisation of the leading-order formulations to prescribed non-uniform rates of mass transfer and to three dimensions.
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