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Dewetting of liquid film via vapour-mediated Marangoni effect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2019

Seungho Kim ,
Joonoh Kim  and
Ho-Young Kim Open the ORCID record for Ho-Young Kim [Opens in a new window]
Seungho Kim
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Joonoh Kim
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
Ho-Young Kim*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
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†Email address for correspondence: hyk@snu.ac.kr
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Abstract

Liquid films on wettable solid surfaces can be disturbed to dewet when low surface tension liquids or surfactants are added because the surface tension difference gives rise to stresses on the film interface. Here we consider an alcohol drop placed above a thin aqueous film, which punctures a hole in the film starting from underneath the alcohol drop. Such film dewetting is attributed to the Marangoni effects caused by the spatial gradient of alcohol vapour concentration. We measure the liquid–gas interfacial tension of aqueous liquids rapidly responding to the surrounding isopropyl alcohol vapour concentration, and observe evolution of the film morphology consisting of central hole, fringe film, thinning region and bulk. We construct scaling laws to predict the dewetting rates of the film by considering the Marangoni stress, viscous shear stress and evaporation. It is shown that our experiments are consistent with our theory.

JFM classification

Interfacial Flows (free surface): Capillary flows Interfacial Flows (free surface): Contact lines Interfacial Flows (free surface): Thin films
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 872 , 10 August 2019 , pp. 100 - 114
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© 2019 Cambridge University Press 

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