The Effects of Resistance to Shift of the Equilibrium State of a Liquid Droplet in Contact with a Solid.
The effect of blocking the shift of the contact surface between a liquid drop and a solid body is discussed. The model proposed in (S. D. Iliev, 1997, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 194, 287) is discussed. This equilibrium model considers the resistance to shift by adding an energy to the classical capillary equilibrium model. It is shown that the set of equilibrium shapes of static droplets is effectively modeled. Studying the set of equilibrium axisymmetric drops, located on a horizontal surface, the analysis proves that the contact angle hysteresis is described without introducing a dependence between the resistance-to-shift coefficients and the drop volume and Bond's number. A possibility of realizing a stick-slip motion and division of the equilibrium drops is studied, too. It is shown that the equilibrium model describes also the set of equilibrium nonaxisymmetric static drops. The everyday experience to obtain the various nonaxisymmetric drop shapes by the deforming of contact line with a thin rod is numerically modeled. Copyright 1999 Academic Press.
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Institute of Mechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str. bl. 4, BG-1113, Sofia, Bulgaria