TY - JOUR
T1 - Impingement and Mixing Dynamics of Micro-Droplets on a Solid Surface
AU - Yi, Guina
AU - Cai, Ziqi
AU - Gao, Zhengming
AU - Derksen, J J
N1 - Supported from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.22078008) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (XK1802-1).
Acknowledgement
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.22078008) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (XK1802-1).
PY - 2022/12/1
Y1 - 2022/12/1
N2 - The hydrodynamics and mixing during the nonaxisymmetry impingement of a micro-droplet and a sessile droplet of the same fluid are investigated by many-body dissipative particle dynamics (MDPD) simulation. In this work, the range of the impingement angle (θi) between the impinging droplet and the sessile droplet is 0° - 60° and the contact angle is set as 45° or 124°. The droplets impingement and mixing behavior is analyzed based on the droplet internal flow field, the concentration distribution and the time scale of the decay of the kinetic energy of the impinging droplet. The dimensionless total mixing time τm is calculated by a modified mixing function. With the Weber number(We) ranging from 5.65 to 22.7 and the Ohnesorge number(Oh) ranging from 0.136 to 0.214, we find τm hardly changes with We and Oh. Whereas, θi and surface wettability are found to have a significant effect on τm. We find that θi has no clear effect on τm on a hydrophobic surface, while on the hydrophilic surface, τm increase with the θi . Thus, reducing the impinging angle is a valid method to shorten the total mixing time.
AB - The hydrodynamics and mixing during the nonaxisymmetry impingement of a micro-droplet and a sessile droplet of the same fluid are investigated by many-body dissipative particle dynamics (MDPD) simulation. In this work, the range of the impingement angle (θi) between the impinging droplet and the sessile droplet is 0° - 60° and the contact angle is set as 45° or 124°. The droplets impingement and mixing behavior is analyzed based on the droplet internal flow field, the concentration distribution and the time scale of the decay of the kinetic energy of the impinging droplet. The dimensionless total mixing time τm is calculated by a modified mixing function. With the Weber number(We) ranging from 5.65 to 22.7 and the Ohnesorge number(Oh) ranging from 0.136 to 0.214, we find τm hardly changes with We and Oh. Whereas, θi and surface wettability are found to have a significant effect on τm. We find that θi has no clear effect on τm on a hydrophobic surface, while on the hydrophilic surface, τm increase with the θi . Thus, reducing the impinging angle is a valid method to shorten the total mixing time.
KW - droplets impingement
KW - mixing behavior
KW - mixing time
KW - concentration distribution
KW - many-body dissipative particle dynamics
U2 - 10.1016/j.cjche.2021.11.001
DO - 10.1016/j.cjche.2021.11.001
M3 - Article
VL - 52
SP - 66
EP - 77
JO - Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering
JF - Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering
SN - 1004-9541
ER -