On a three-dimensional volume tracking model of droplet impact
- 5 May 1999
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 11 (6) , 1406-1417
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.870005
Abstract
A three-dimensional model has been developed of droplet impact onto asymmetric surface geometries. The model is based on RIPPLE, and combines a fixed-grid control volume discretization of the flow equations with a volume tracking algorithm to track the droplet free surface. Surface tension is modeled as a volume force acting on fluid near the free surface. Contact angles are applied as a boundary condition at the contact line. The results of two scenarios are presented, of the oblique impact of a 2 mm water droplet at 1 m/sec onto a 45° incline, and of a similar impact of a droplet onto a sharp edge. Photographs are presented of such impacts, against which the numerical results are compared. The contact angle boundary condition is applied in one of two ways. For the impact onto an incline, the temporal variation of contact angles at the leading and trailing edges of the droplet was measured from photographs. This data is applied as a boundary condition to the simulation, and an interpolation scheme proposed to evaluate contact angles between the leading and trailing edges. A simpler model is then proposed, for contact angle as a function of contact line velocity, and applied to both geometries. The model requires values of only two contact angles, at a rapidly advancing and a rapidly receding contact line. Simulation results compare well with photographic data.Keywords
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