Characteristic Angles in the Wetting of an Angular Region: Deposit Growth

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  • 20 January 2003
Abstract
As was shown in an earlier paper [1], solids dispersed in a drying drop migrate to the (pinned) contact line. This migration is caused by outward flows driven by the loss of the solvent due to evaporation and by geometrical constraint that the drop maintains an equilibrium surface shape with a fixed boundary. Here, in continuation of our earlier paper [2], we theoretically investigate the evaporation rate, the flow field and the rate of growth of the deposit patterns in a drop over an angular sector on a plane substrate. Asymptotic power laws near the vertex (as distance to the vertex goes to zero) are obtained. A hydrodynamic model of fluid flow near the singularity of the vertex is developed and the velocity field is obtained. The rate of the deposit growth near the contact line is found in two time regimes. Knowledge of the analytical solutions for both circular (considered earlier) and angular (considered here) boundary shapes fills out the quantitative picture of solute transfer and deposit growth for an arbitrary drop boundary.

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