Modelling capillary filling dynamics using lattice Boltzmann simulations
| Autor: | Pooley, C. M., Kusumaatmaja, H., Yeomans, J. M. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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| Zdroj: | Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 171, 63-71 (2009) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1140/epjst/e2009-01012-0 |
| Popis: | We investigate the dynamics of capillary filling using two lattice Boltzmann schemes: a liquid-gas model and a binary model. The simulation results are compared to the well-known Washburn's law, which predicts that the filled length of the capillary scales with time as $l \propto t^{1/2}$. We find that the liquid-gas model does not reproduce Washburn's law due to condensation of the gas phase at the interface, which causes the asymptotic behaviour of the capillary penetration to be faster than $t^{1/2}. The binary model, on the other hand, captures the correct scaling behaviour when the viscosity ratio between the two phases is sufficiently high. Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, DSFD 2007 proceedings |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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