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Evaporation of sessile water droplets: Universal behaviour in presence of contact angle hysteresis
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posted on 2017-07-18, 08:38 authored by Sergey Semenov, Victor Starov, Ramon Rubio, Hezekiah Agogo, M.G. VelardeA theory is presented, which describes the diffusion limited evaporation of sessile water droplets in presence of contact angle hysteresis. Theory describes two stages of evaporation process: (I) evaporation with a constant radius of the droplet base; and (II) evaporation with a constant contact angle. During stage (I) the contact angles decreases from static advancing contact angle to static receding contact angle. During stage (II) the contact angle remains equal to the static receding contact angle. Universal
dependences are deduced for both evaporation stages. Obtained universal curves are validated against available in the literature experimental data.
Funding
This research was supported by the European Union under Grant MULTIFLOW, FP7-ITN-2008-214919.
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