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- Title
Quasi-Stationary Evaporation of a Small Liquid Droplet on a Flat Substrate: Analytical Solution in Bipolar Coordinates.
- Authors
Savenko, O. A.; Lebedev-Stepanov, P. V.
- Abstract
The study of a sessile liquid droplet evaporating on a flat surface is of great importance for physicochemical, technical, and medical applications. New analytical expressions have been proposed for the vapor density, evaporation flux density, and total evaporation flux per unit time for a slowly evaporating small axially symmetric droplet placed onto a flat substrate at an arbitrary value of the contact angle ranging from 0 to 180°. When deriving the expressions, the solution of the Laplace equation well-known in electrostatics for a flat wedge has been used. The solution has been transformed by the method of inversion on a sphere into a solution for a lens in bipolar coordinates. The new expressions are mathematically equivalent to previously-proposed equations in toroidal coordinates [Popov, Yu.O., Phys. Rev. E, 2005, vol. 71, p. 036313]; however, in the bipolar coordinates, the evaporation flux density has a simpler form of a single integral of a combination of elementary functions, thus being advantageous from the computational point of view. A new expression has also been proposed for the evaporation flux density in polar coordinates and graphic constructions have been performed for the dependences of the evaporation flux density on the polar angle at different values of the droplet contact angle.
- Subjects
ANALYTICAL solutions; ACTINIC flux; VAPOR density; CONTACT angle; ANGLES; LIQUIDS; APARTMENTS
- Publication
Colloid Journal, 2022, Vol 84, Issue 3, p312
- ISSN
1061-933X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S1061933X22030115