Effect of transient pinning on stability of drops sitting on an inclined plane

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2007 Jun;75(6 Pt 2):066308. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.066308. Epub 2007 Jun 11.

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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Computer Simulation
  • Models, Statistical
  • Models, Theoretical*
  • Physics / methods
  • Vibration
  • Water / chemistry*

Substances

  • Water