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Collapse of a hemicatenoid bounded by a solid wall: instability and dynamics driven by surface Plateau border friction.

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Raufaste, Christophe  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4328-7438
Goldstein, Raymond E  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2645-0598
Pesci, Adriana I 

Abstract

The collapse of a catenoidal soap film when the rings supporting it are moved beyond a critical separation is a classic problem in interface motion in which there is a balance between surface tension and the inertia of the surrounding air, with film viscosity playing only a minor role. Recently [Goldstein et al., Phys. Rev. E, 2021, 104, 035105], we introduced a variant of this problem in which the catenoid is bisected by a glass plate located in a plane of symmetry perpendicular to the rings, producing two identical hemicatenoids, each with a surface Plateau border (SPB) on the glass plate. Beyond the critical ring separation, the hemicatenoids collapse in a manner qualitatively similar to the bulk problem, but their motion is governed by the frictional forces arising from viscous dissipation in the SPBs. We present numerical studies of a model that includes classical laws in which the frictional force fv for SPB motion on wet surfaces is of the form fv ∼ Can, where Ca is the capillary number. Our experimental data on the temporal evolution of this process confirms the expected value n = 2/3 for mobile surfactants and stress-free interfaces. This study can help explain the fragmentation of bubbles inside very confined geometries such as porous materials or microfluidic devices.

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4012 Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Engineering, 40 Engineering, 51 Physical Sciences

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Soft Matter

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1744-683X
1744-6848

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Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/M017982/1)