title: Interface and contact line motion in a two phase fluid under shear flow
abstract: We use a coarse grained description to study the steady state interfacial configuration of a two phase fluid under steady shear. Dissipative relaxation of the order parameter leads to interfacial slip at the contact line, even with no-slip boundary conditions on the fluid velocity. This relaxation occurs within a characteristic length scale l(0) = sqrt[xiD/V0], with xi the (microscopic) interfacial thickness, D an order parameter diffusivity, and V0 the boundary velocity. The steady state interfacial configuration is shown to satisfy a scaling form involving the ratio l(0)/L, where L is the width of the fluid layer, for a passive interface, and the capillary number as well for an active interface.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jasnow
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vinals