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Effect of interfacial viscosities on droplet migration at low surfactant concentrations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2020

Rajat Dandekar
Affiliation:
School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN49707, USA
Arezoo M. Ardekani*
Affiliation:
School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN49707, USA
*
†Email address for correspondence: ardekani@purdue.edu

Abstract

In this paper, we theoretically investigate the migration of a surfactant covered droplet in a Poiseuille flow by including the surface viscosities of the droplet. We employ a regular perturbation expansion for low surface Péclet numbers and solve the problem up to a second-order approximation. We represent the drop surface as a two-dimensional homogeneous fluid using the Bousinessq–Scriven law and employ Lamb's general solution to represent the velocity fields inside and outside the droplet. We obtain an expression for the cross-stream migration velocity of the droplet, where the surface viscosities are captured by the Bousinessq numbers for surface shear and surface dilatation. We elucidate the influence of the surface viscosities on the migration characteristics of the droplet and the surfactant redistribution on the droplet surface. Our study sheds light on the importance of including the droplet surface viscosities to accurately predict the migration characteristics of the droplet.

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JFM Papers
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press
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Table 1. List of previous works studying the cross-stream migration of an eccentrically placed surfactant-laden droplet in an unbounded Poiseuille flow. Here $Pe_{s}$ represents the surface Péclet number and $\eta _{\mu }$ and $\eta _{\kappa }$ represent the surface shear and dilatation viscosity, respectively.

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Figure 1. Surfactant-laden droplet of radius $a$ immersed in a cylindrical Poiseuille flow at a radial distance of $b$ from the flow axis. $(x,y,z)$ and $(r,\theta ,\phi )$ represent the Cartesian and spherical coordinate systems attached to the centre of the droplet, respectively. Here, $\theta$ is the angle made by the vector shown as $\boldsymbol {r}$ in the figure with the $z$-axis, $\phi$ is the angle made by the projection of the vector $\boldsymbol {r}$ on the $x$–$y$ plane (shown as a blue vector) with the $x$-axis. The dashed blue line represents the $z$-coordinate of the vector $\boldsymbol {r}$.

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Figure 2. Panels (a,c,e) show the leading-order velocity vectors both inside (shown in blue) and outside the drop (shown in black) superimposed with the leading-order surfactant concentration field. Panels (b,d,f) show the first-order velocity vectors both inside (shown in blue) and outside the drop (shown in black) superimposed with the first-order surfactant concentration field for (a,b) $Bq_{\kappa }=0,Bq_{\mu }=0$, (c,d) $Bq_{\kappa }=100,Bq_{\mu }=0$ and (e,f) $Bq_{\kappa }=0,Bq_{\mu }=100$. For all the cases shown, $a/R=1,\ b/R=1,\ \lambda =1,\ Ma=1$. The flow direction is from left to right.

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Figure 3. Variation of the drop cross-stream migration velocity with (a) Boussinesq number for surface dilatation for $Bq_{\mu }=0,\lambda =1$ and (b) Bousinessq number for surface shear for $Bq_{\kappa }=0,\lambda =1$.

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Figure 4. Second-order surfactant distribution $\Gamma ^{(2)}$ for (a) $Bq_{\kappa }=0,Bq_{\mu }=0$, (b) $Bq_{\kappa }=100,Bq_{\mu }=0$ and (c) $Bq_{\kappa }=0,Bq_{\mu }=100$. In all the cases, $a/R=1, b/R=1, \lambda =1,Ma=1$ and the external flow is along the $z$-axis.