How Natural Evaporation Temporally Self-Tunes an Oscillating Sessile Droplet To Resonate at Different Modes

Sanyal, Apratim and Basu, Saptarshi (2016) How Natural Evaporation Temporally Self-Tunes an Oscillating Sessile Droplet To Resonate at Different Modes. In: LANGMUIR, 32 (19). pp. 4784-4791.

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Abstract

We report the dynamics and underlying physics of evaporation driven transitions and autotuning of oscillation modes in sessile droplets subject to substrate perturbations. We have shown that evaporation controls temporal transition of the oscillation mode with a spatially downward shift of nodes (surface locations with zero displacement) toward the three-phase contact line. We have explained the physical mechanism using two parameters: the first quantifies evaporation driven tuning for resonance detection, and the second parameter characterizes mode lifetime which is found to be governed by evaporation dynamics. It is desirable to achieve autotuning of the oscillation modes in sessile droplets that essentially self-evolves in a spatiotemporal manner with continued evaporation. The insights suggest control of mode resonances is possible, which in turn will allow precision manipulations at droplet scale crucial for many applications such as surface patterning and others.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	LANGMUIR
Publisher:	AMER CHEMICAL SOC
Additional Information:	Copy right for this article belongs to the AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 1155 16TH ST, NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20036 USA
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Mechanical Engineering
Date Deposited:	16 Jun 2016 07:36
Last Modified:	16 Jun 2016 07:36
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/53999

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