中国物理B ›› 2023, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (5): 54701-054701.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/ac9cbd

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Improved contact angle measurement in multiphase lattice Boltzmann

Xing-Guo Zhong(钟兴国), Yang-Sha Liu(刘阳莎), Yi-Chen Yao(姚怡辰), Bing He(何冰), and Bing-Hai Wen(闻炳海)   

  1. College of Computer Science and Engineering, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
  • 收稿日期:2022-08-04 修回日期:2022-10-10 接受日期:2022-10-21 出版日期:2023-04-21 发布日期:2023-04-26
  • 通讯作者: Bing He, Bing-Hai Wen E-mail:hebing@gxnu.edu.cn;oceanwen@gxnu.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12272100, 81860635, and 12062005).

Improved contact angle measurement in multiphase lattice Boltzmann

Xing-Guo Zhong(钟兴国), Yang-Sha Liu(刘阳莎), Yi-Chen Yao(姚怡辰), Bing He(何冰), and Bing-Hai Wen(闻炳海)   

  1. College of Computer Science and Engineering, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
  • Received:2022-08-04 Revised:2022-10-10 Accepted:2022-10-21 Online:2023-04-21 Published:2023-04-26
  • Contact: Bing He, Bing-Hai Wen E-mail:hebing@gxnu.edu.cn;oceanwen@gxnu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12272100, 81860635, and 12062005).

摘要: Contact angle is an essential parameter to characterize substrate wettability. The measurement of contact angle in experiment and simulation is a complex and time-consuming task. In this paper, an improved method of measuring contact angle in multiphase lattice Boltzmann simulations is proposed, which can accurately obtain the real-time contact angle at a low temperature and larger density ratio. The three-phase contact point is determined by an extrapolation, and its position is not affected by the local deformation of flow field in the three-phase contact region. A series of simulations confirms that the present method has high accuracy and gird-independence. The contact angle keeps an excellent linear relationship with the chemical potential of the surface, so that it is very convenient to specify the wettability of a surface. The real-time contact angle measurement enables us to obtain the dynamic contact angle hysteresis on chemically heterogeneous surface, while the mechanical analyses can be effectively implemented at the moving contact line.

关键词: contact angle measurement, contact angle hysteresis, mechanical analysis, lattice Boltzmann method

Abstract: Contact angle is an essential parameter to characterize substrate wettability. The measurement of contact angle in experiment and simulation is a complex and time-consuming task. In this paper, an improved method of measuring contact angle in multiphase lattice Boltzmann simulations is proposed, which can accurately obtain the real-time contact angle at a low temperature and larger density ratio. The three-phase contact point is determined by an extrapolation, and its position is not affected by the local deformation of flow field in the three-phase contact region. A series of simulations confirms that the present method has high accuracy and gird-independence. The contact angle keeps an excellent linear relationship with the chemical potential of the surface, so that it is very convenient to specify the wettability of a surface. The real-time contact angle measurement enables us to obtain the dynamic contact angle hysteresis on chemically heterogeneous surface, while the mechanical analyses can be effectively implemented at the moving contact line.

Key words: contact angle measurement, contact angle hysteresis, mechanical analysis, lattice Boltzmann method

中图分类号:  (Computational methods in fluid dynamics)

  • 47.11.-j
05.50.+q (Lattice theory and statistics) 47.61.Jd (Multiphase flows) 47.55.np (Contact lines)