Effect of transient pinning on stability of drops sitting on an inclined plane
Abstract
We report on new instabilities of the quasistatic equilibrium of water drops pinned by a hydrophobic inclined substrate. The contact line of a statically pinned drop exhibits three transitions of partial depinning: depinning of the advancing and receding parts of the contact line and depinning of the entire contact line leading to the drop's translational motion. We find a region of parameters where the classical Macdougall-Ockrent-Frenkel approach fails to estimate the critical volume of the statically pinned inclined drop. © 2007 The American Physical Society.
Date Published
Journal
Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
Volume
75
Issue
6
URL
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-34547272600&doi=10.1103%2fPhysRevE.75.066308&partnerID=40&md5=ed199a93207de236cc5e261bafa96ba1
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevE.75.066308
Research Area
Group (Lab)
Robert Thorne Group