Dynamics of colloid silver nanoparticles in an evaporating water drop

The method of photon correlation spectroscopy is used to investigate the distribution of the diffusion coefficient of silver nanoparticles in an evaporating water drop given that the drop base area remains unchanged (the pinning condition). It is established that the capillary flow dominates over the diffusion nanoparticle motion in redistribution of concentration of the dissolved nanoparticles.     

Coupling between precipitation and contact-line dynamics: multiring stains and stick-slip motion

The contact line in an evaporating drop can stay pinned to form a single ring or can shrink in a discontinuous stepwise manner and generate multiple rings. We demonstrate the latter with DNA solutions and attribute it to a pinning-depinning cycle that generates new contact lines. The new contact line recedes after depinning and is repinned at an internal precipitate ring that determines the location of the next contact line. Each precursor ring is formed when DNAs are trapped by an internal microstagnation flow and precipitation dynamics hence control this unsteady drop motion.     

Effect of evaporation conditions on the spatial redistribution of components in an evaporating liquid drop on a horizontal solid substrate

A convection-diffusion equation is used to study the effect of the character of evaporation on the substance redistribution in a drying drop of a multicomponent fluid. Diffusion is shown to hinder the motion of substances with a high diffusion coefficient toward the periphery of the evaporating drop. Qualitatively, the model law describing the vapor flux density does not affect the character of substance redistribution.     

矩形微槽横截面换热特性的分析

对矩形毛细微槽中液膜在横截面方向上的换热特性进行了研究。计算结果表明,当弯月面与槽底接触时,不仅在微槽的侧壁面上存在两个蒸发薄液膜区,在槽底还形成了两个蒸发薄液膜区;随着槽底热负荷的增大,薄液膜区域热流密度的峰值随之升高;固液接触角增大,薄液膜区域的热流密度峰值增大;薄液膜区域的高强度蒸发换热是矩形毛细微槽高强度换热的主要原因,占总换热量的80%以上;固液界面接触角对薄液膜换热的影响很大。     

自由流区近壁蒸发及未蒸发颗粒的热泳分析

本文给出了自由分子流区作用在壁面附近蒸发及未蒸发颗粒上的热泳力的分析结果.分析中气体分子在壁面和颗粒表面处均假定为部分镜反射和部分漫反射.分析表明,作用在近壁颗粒上的热泳力不仅依赖于气体中的温度梯度,还和气体的压力以及壁面与气体温度比有关.颗粒表面的温度和镜反射分数对作用于未蒸发颗粒的热泳力没有影响,但明显影响作用于蒸发颗粒的热泳力.研究表明,近壁效应及蒸发对颗粒热泳的附加影响是不容忽视的.     

Order-to-disorder transition in ring-shaped colloidal stains

A colloidal dispersion droplet evaporating from a surface, such as a drying coffee drop, leaves a distinct ring-shaped stain. Although this mechanism is frequently used for particle self-assembly, the conditions for crystallization have remained unclear. Our experiments with monodisperse colloidal particles reveal a structural transition in the stain, from ordered crystals to disordered packings. We show that this sharp transition originates from a temporal singularity of the flow velocity inside the evaporating droplet at the end of its life. When the deposition speed is low, particles have time to arrange by Brownian motion, while at the end, high-speed particles are jammed into a disordered phase.     

Thermal hydraulic characterization of stainless steel wicks for heat pipe applications

Heat pipe design and manufacturing require the knowledge of the thermal hydraulic performance of the wicks. The aim of the present work is the thermal hydraulic characterization of stainless steel wicks (sintered porous media and gauzes) to be employed in our experimental water heat pipe. Commercial sintered porous media (able to capture 90 % of 90 μm particles and 99.9 % of 130 μm particles) and gauzes (nominal wire size 0.11 mm, square mesh opening 0.209 mm) have been used. Thermal hydraulic characterization of the wicks is obtained through the experimental measurement of: capillary height (through which the equivalent porous radius can be evaluated), liquid hydraulic head (through which the liquid pressure drop in the wick is evaluated) wick permeability is also evaluated from the hydraulic head (through Darcy's law), heat flux, wick mass flow rate during the evaporation (through which, from the knowledge of other measured wick parameters, the wick two-phase pressure drop is calculated) and wick porosity (through which the thermal conductivity of the wick saturated with liquid can be determined). Concerning the heat flux, it is found to be dependent on the distance between the liquid level and the evaporating zone, the evaporating zone length, the wall superheat and the water subcooling, the contact between the heater and the wick and the superficial boundary conditions of the wick.     

存在液膜的毛细蒸发过程研究

采用水浴恒温蒸发方法研究了液膜存在时的毛细蒸发过程. 研究结果表明：毛细蒸发过程中液/气界面符合黏性指延,且不受蒸发速度及液膜状态的影响;蒸发过程可分为剧烈减速、匀速蒸发、线性减速蒸发和边界效应四个阶段,分别对应不同的液膜状态;毛细蒸发的主要区域在毛细管端口液膜处,工质由液体区流向端口蒸发区的过程中液膜起到了通道桥梁作用. 关键词： 毛细蒸发 液/气界面 蒸发阶段 液膜     

Imaging of Drop and Vapour Clouds in an Evaporating Fuel Spray by ultraviolet and visible lasers

A laser-based method was developed for the simultaneous and quantitative imaging of drop and vapour clouds in an evaporating fuel spray. The method was based on extinction of two wavelengths, that is, ultraviolet and visible laser light through the fuel spray due to absorption by the vapour and scattering by the drops. α-Methylnaphthalene was selected as an injection fuel, since it absorbs the ultraviolet laser light but does not absorb the visible laser light. Subtraction of the transmissivity of the visible laser light from that of the ultraviolet laser light made it possible to image the distribution of the vapour cloud in the evaporating fuel spray. The distribution of the drop cloud is imaged by the transmissivity of the visible laser light. The method was applied to the fuel spray injected from a nozzle of a direct injection diesel engine into high-pressure and high-temperature nitrogen gas in a bomb.     

NATURAL-CONVECTION AND DROP MORPHOLOGY IN LIQUID-LIQUID DIRECT CONTACT

An optical Fourier transform system is applied to visualize natural-convectire flow patterns inside an evaporating liquid drop floating on an immiscible liquid. Strong cellular convective patterns prevail inside the drop at room temperature, which play an important role in the evaporation of the drop. A grating-shearing interferometry with a 4t system is developed for a real-time determination of a change in the drop morphology during the process of evaporation. Various types of drop geometry, which are derived from the moire fringes, are identified. An unstable, interfacial evaporation mode is disclosed and the mechanism for the augmentation of drop evaporation is determined. The study has potential applications in the process industry and in environmental control.     

Vaporization of Small Spherical Drops in a Gas

The process of vaporization of a small (compared to the free path of molecules in the medium) spherical liquid drop in an infinite nonabsorbing gaseous medium is considered. Analytical expressions for the time dependence of the drop radius are derived under assumption that vaporized molecules escape from the drop in the asymptotic diffusion regime, and the thermal energy flux toward the vaporizing drop is formed as a result of collisions of vaporized and gas molecules. It is demonstrated that consideration of unsaturated vapor at the surface of the evaporating drop increases the estimated vaporization time of submicron drops by several orders of magnitude compared to the Maxwell classical model.     

Microdroplet targeting induced by substrate curvature

Fundamental understanding of the wettability of curved substrates is crucial for the applications of microdroplets in colloidal science, microfluidics, and heat exchanger technologies. Here we report via lattice Boltzmann simulations and energetic analysis that microdroplets show an ability of transporting selectively to appropriate substrates solely according to substrate shape(curvature), which is called the substrate-curvature-dependent droplet targeting because of its similarity to protein targeting by which proteins are transported to the appropriate destinations in the cell. Two dynamic pathways of droplet targeting are identified: one is the Ostwald ripening-like liquid transport between separated droplets via evaporating droplets on more curved convex(or less curved concave) surfaces and growing droplets on less curved convex(or more curved concave) surfaces, and the other is the directional motion of a droplet through contacting simultaneously substrates of different curvatures. Then we demonstrate analytically that droplet targeting is a thermodynamically driven process. The driving force for directional motion of droplets is the surface-curvature-induced modulation of the work of adhesion, while the Ostwald ripening-like transport is ascribed to the substrate-curvature-induced change of droplet curvature radius. Our findings of droplet targeting are potentially useful for a tremendous range of applications, such as microfluidics, thermal control, and microfabrication.     

Motion of electron-hole drops in low magnetic fields

The effect of magnetic fields on the motion of electron-hole drops in germanium is studied. A non-uniform strain is used to provide a known and controllable driving force for drop motion in the sample plane. Contrary to the results of earlier experiments in which drop motion was normal to the sample plane, the results are consistent with conventional models of drop-phenomenon interaction and weak magnetic fields have no observable effects on this motion.     

一般球对称带电蒸发黑洞的熵

从一般球对称带电蒸发黑洞的时空线元和零曲面方程出发,得到了该黑洞的视界;利用KleinGordon方程求得波数,进而采用WenzelKramersBrillouin近似方法和薄膜brickwall模型,求出了一般球对称带电蒸发黑洞的熵,所得的熵正好与该黑洞的视界面积成正比 关键词： 黑洞 KleinGordon方程 熵 薄膜brickwall模型 视界     

Pattern formation in drying drops

Ring formation in an evaporating sessile drop is a hydrodynamic process in which solids dispersed in the drop are advected to the contact line. After all the liquid evaporates, a ring-shaped deposit is left on the substrate that contains almost all the solute. Here I show that the drop itself can generate one of the essential conditions for ring formation to occur: contact line pinning. Furthermore, I show that when self-induced pinning is the only source of pinning an array of patterns-that include cellular and lamellar structures, sawtooth patterns, and Sierpinski gaskets-arises from the competition between dewetting and contact line pinning.     

Patterning of small particles by a surfactant-enhanced Marangoni-Bénard instability

Evaporating drops provide a means of organizing particles suspended within them. Here, the manner in which surfactants alter these patterns is studied as a function of the surface state of an insoluble monolayer at the drop interface. The surface state is visualized throughout the drop evolution using fluorescence microscopy. A regime of surfactant coverage is identified that creates conditions that enhance the Marangoni-Bénard instability. This result was not anticipated in prior studies, in which surfactants are predicted to prevent this instability. These data demonstrate that, by tuning the liquid-gas boundary condition, the patterns formed from an evaporating drop can be controlled.     

Vibration-induced climbing of drops

We report an experimental study of liquid drops moving against gravity, when placed on a vertically vibrating inclined plate, which is partially wetted by the drop. The frequency of vibrations ranges from 30 to 200 Hz, and, above a threshold in vibration acceleration, drops experience an upward motion. We attribute this surprising motion to the deformations of the drop, as a consequence of an up or down symmetry breaking induced by the presence of the substrate. We relate the direction of motion to contact angle measurements. This phenomenon can be used to move a drop along an arbitrary path in a plane, without special surface treatments or localized forcing.     

Anode Phenomena in Vacuum and Atmospheric Pressure Arcs

This paper summarizes recent experimental data related to anode phenomena in both vacuum and atmospheric pressure arcs. Currents in the range 10A to 3OkA are discussed, and particular emphasis is placed on the effect of plasma flow from the cathode. For vacuum arcs this plasma flow is the directed motion of metal ions from the cathode spots. These ions reduce the anode voltage drop, and maintain a diffuse anode termination. At atmospheric pressure the ion flow is impeded by gas-atom collisions. However, a plasma flow towards the anode can result from magnetic pinch forces at the constricted cathode termination. In the absence of plasma flow, the anode termination constricts to a vigorously evaporating anode spot. For a typical non-refractory electrode such as copper, the spot operates at a temperature close to the boiling point irrespective of the gas pressure. The spot temperature is dictated by the balance between electrical input power and evaporative losses. These anode phenomena are discussed in relation to vacuum switchgear, arc welding and arc furnaces.     

液滴在不同润湿性表面上蒸发时的动力学特性

基于润滑理论,采用滑移边界条件建立了二维液滴厚度的演化模型和移动接触线动力学模型,利用数值计算方法模拟了均匀加热基底上固着液滴蒸发时的动力学特性,分析了液-气、固-气和液-固界面张力温度敏感性对壁面润湿性和液滴动态特性的影响.结果表明,液滴的运动过程受毛细力、重力、热毛细力和蒸发的影响,重力对液滴铺展起促进作用,而毛细力、热毛细力则起抑制作用;通过改变界面张力温度敏感性系数,可使液滴蒸发过程中的接触线呈现处于钉扎或部分钉扎模式,且接触线钉扎模式下的液滴存续时间低于部分钉扎模式;提高液-气与液-固界面张力温度敏感系数均可改善壁面润湿性能,加快液滴铺展速率;而增大固-气界面张力温度敏感系数则导致壁面润湿性能恶化、延缓液滴铺展过程;通过改变固-气界面张力温度敏感系数更有利于调控处于蒸发状态下的液滴运动.     

Flow and evaporation of nonisothermal fluid film moving under the action of a vapor stream in a microchannel taking into account heat and mass transfer on the free interface

A new three-dimensional unsteady mathematical model of joint motion of an evaporating fluid film and the vapor stream of this fluid in a microchannel under local heating is presented.