Basu, S and Rao, DCK and Chattopadhyay, A and Chakraborty, J (2021) Dissolution dynamics of a vertically confined sessile droplet. In: Physical Review E, 103 (1).
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Abstract
We experimentally investigate the dissolution of microscale sessile alcohol droplets in water under the influence of impermeable vertical confinement. The introduction of confinement suppresses the mass transport from the droplet to bulk medium in comparison with the nonconfined counterpart. Along with a buoyant plume, flow visualization reveals that the dissolution of a confined droplet is hindered by a mechanism called levitated toroidal vortex. The morphological changes in the flow due to the vortex-induced impediment alters the dissolution rate, resulting in enhancement of droplet lifetime. Further, we have proposed a modification in the key nondimensional parameters [Rayleigh number Ra′ (signifying buoyancy) and Sherwood number Sh′ (signifying mass flux)] and droplet lifetime τc′, based on the hypothesis of linearly stratified droplet surroundings (with revised concentration difference ΔC′), taking into account the geometry of the confinements. We show that experimental results on droplet dissolution under vertical confinement corroborate scaling relations Sh′∼Ra′1/4 and τc′∼ΔC′-5/4. We also draw attention to the fact that the revised scaling law incorporating the geometry of confinements proposed in the present work can be extended to other known configurations such as droplet dissolution inside a range of channel dimensions, as encountered in a gamut of applications such as microfluidic technology and biomedical engineering. © 2021 American Physical Society.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Physical Review E |
| Publisher: | American Physical Society |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to the Authors. |
| Keywords: | Biomedical engineering; Buoyancy; Dissolution; Vortex flow, Channel dimension; Dissolution dynamics; Dissolution rates; Microfluidic technologies; Morphological changes; Non-dimensional parameters; Scaling relations; Toroidal vortices, Drops |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Mechanical Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 22 May 2023 04:19 |
| Last Modified: | 22 May 2023 04:19 |
| URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/81710 |
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