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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review Fluids Année : 2022

Influence of gravity on the freezing dynamics of drops on a solid surface

Hao Zeng
Sijia Lyu
Chao Sun
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Water droplet freezing is a common phenomenon in our daily life. In both natural scenarios and industrial production, different surface inclinations bring distinctive deformation and freezing dynamics to frozen droplets. We explore the freezing of pendent and sessile droplets at different Bond number regimes. The effect of gravity on the droplet freezing process is analyzed by considering droplet morphology, freezing front dynamics, and freezing time. It is found that gravity can significantly influence droplet freezing processes via shaping the initial droplet, resulting in the flattening or elongation of pendent and sessile droplets, respectively. We show that the droplet initial geometry is the most important parameter and it completely controls the droplet freezing. Despite the significant difference in the initial droplet shape several remarkable similarities have been found for pendent and sessile droplets at small and large Bond numbers. The final height of a frozen droplet is found to be linearly proportional to its initial height. The time evolution of the ice-liquid-air contact line is found to reproduce the power law t0.5, but noticeably faster than the Stefan 1D icing front propagation. As a consequence, the time to freeze a droplet is faster than predicted by the Stefan model, and it is found to be dependent on the initial droplet height and base radius through a simple power law.
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hal-04581435 , version 1 (21-05-2024)

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Hao Zeng, Sijia Lyu, Dominique Legendre, Chao Sun. Influence of gravity on the freezing dynamics of drops on a solid surface. Physical Review Fluids, 2022, 7 (10), pp.103605. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.103605⟩. ⟨hal-04581435⟩
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