Scaling Laws for Spreading of a Liquid Under Pressure
Soft Condensed Matter
2015-05-13 v1 Materials Science
Abstract
We study squeeze flow of two different fluids (castor oil and ethylene glycol) between a pair of glass plates and a pair of perspex plates, under an applied load. The film thickness is found to vary with time as a power-law, where the exponent increases with load. After a certain time interval the area of fluid-solid contact saturates to a constant value. This saturation area, increases with load at different rates for different fluid-solid combinations.
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@article{arxiv.0902.1222,
title = {Scaling Laws for Spreading of a Liquid Under Pressure},
author = {Soma Nag and Suparna Dutta and Sujata Tarafdar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.1222},
year = {2015}
}
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10 pages, 5 figures