Mesoscopic modelling of droplets on topologically patterned substrates
Soft Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v1 Materials Science
Abstract
We present a lattice Boltzmann model to describe the spreading of droplets on topologically patterned substrates. We apply it to model superhydrophobic behaviour on surfaces covered by an array of micron-scale posts. We find that the patterning results in a substantial increase in contact angle, from to .
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0401150,
title = {Mesoscopic modelling of droplets on topologically patterned substrates},
author = {A. Dupuis and J. M. Yeomans},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0401150},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages, 4 figures, to be presented at the ICCS2004 Workshop on Multi-Physics Multi-Scale Simulation