Imperial College London

DrOrySchnitzer

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Mathematics

Reader in Applied Mathematics
 
 
 
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Citation

BibTex format

@article{Yariv:2018:10.1007/s10665-018-9952-z,
author = {Yariv, E and Schnitzer, O},
doi = {10.1007/s10665-018-9952-z},
journal = {Journal of Engineering Mathematics},
pages = {15--22},
title = {Pressure-driven plug flows between superhydrophobic surfaces of closely spaced circular bubbles},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10665-018-9952-z},
volume = {111},
year = {2018}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - Shear-driven flows over superhydrophobic surfaces formed of closely spaced circular bubbles are characterized by giant longitudinal slip lengths, viz., large compared with the periodicity (Schnitzer, Phys Rev Fluids 1(5):052101, 2016). This hints towards a strong superhydrophobic effect in the concomitant scenario of pressure-driven flow between two such surfaces, particularly for non-wide channels where bubble-to-bubble pitch and bubble radius are commensurate with channel width. We show here that such pressure-driven flows can be analyzed asymptotically and in closed form based on the smallness of the gaps separating the bubbles relative to the channel width (and bubble radius). We find that the flow adopts an unconventional plug profile away from the inter-bubble gaps, with the uniform velocity being asymptotically larger than the corresponding Poiseuille scale. For a given solid fraction and channel width, the net volumetric flux is maximized when the length of each semi-circular bubble-liquid interface is equal to the channel width. The plug flow identified herein cannot be obtained via a naive implementation of a Navier condition, which is indeed inapplicable for non-wide channels.
AU - Yariv,E
AU - Schnitzer,O
DO - 10.1007/s10665-018-9952-z
EP - 22
PY - 2018///
SN - 0022-0833
SP - 15
TI - Pressure-driven plug flows between superhydrophobic surfaces of closely spaced circular bubbles
T2 - Journal of Engineering Mathematics
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10665-018-9952-z
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/55717
VL - 111
ER -