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Evaporation with the formation of chains of liquid bridges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2018

C. Chen ,
P. Joseph ,
S. Geoffroy ,
M. Prat  and
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C. Chen
Affiliation:
Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, IMFT, Université de Toulouse, CNRS - Toulouse, France
P. Joseph
Affiliation:
LAAS-CNRS, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
S. Geoffroy
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Matériaux et Durabilité des Constructions (LMDC), UPS-INSA, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
M. Prat
Affiliation:
Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, IMFT, Université de Toulouse, CNRS - Toulouse, France
P. Duru*
Affiliation:
Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, IMFT, Université de Toulouse, CNRS - Toulouse, France
*
†Email address for correspondence: duru@imft.fr
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Abstract

The objective of the present work is to study the drying of a quasi-two-dimensional model porous medium, hereafter called the micromodel, initially filled with a pure liquid. The micromodel consists of cylinders measuring $50~\unicode[STIX]{x03BC}\text{m}$ in both height and diameter, radially arranged as a set of neighbouring spirals and sandwiched between two horizontal flat plates. As drying proceeds, air invades the pore space and elongated liquid films trapped by capillary forces form along the spirals. These films consist of ‘chains’ of liquid bridges connecting neighbouring cylinders. They provide hydraulic connectivity between the central bulk liquid cluster and the external rim of the cylinder pattern, where evaporation takes place during a first constant-evaporation-rate drying stage. The first goal of the present paper is to describe experimentally the phase distribution during drying, notably the evolution of liquid films, which controls the evaporation kinetics (e.g. the depinning of the films from the external rim signals the end of the constant-evaporation-rate period). Then, a viscocapillary model for the drying process is presented. It is based on numerical simulations of a liquid film capillary shape and viscous flow within a film. The model shows a reasonably good agreement with the experimental data. Thus, the present study is a step towards direct modelling of the effect of films on the drying of more complex porous media (e.g. packing of beads) and should be of interest for multiphase flow applications in porous media, involving transport within liquid films.

JFM classification

Interfacial Flows (free surface): Capillary flows Interfacial Flows (free surface): Liquid bridges Low-Reynolds-number flows: Porous media
Type
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 837 , 25 February 2018 , pp. 703 - 728
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© 2018 Cambridge University Press 

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Present address: Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University, China.

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