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Author: Münch, Andreas × Subject: Fluid dynamics ×

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    Thin-film models for viscoelastic liquid bi-layers
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2015) Jachalski, Sebastian; Münch, Andreas; Wagner, Barbara
    In this work we consider a two-layer system of viscoelastic liquids of corotational Jeffreys type dewetting from a Newtonian liquid substrates. We derive conditions that allow for the first time the asymptotically consistent reduction of the free boundary problem for the two-layer system to a system of coupled thin-film equations that incorporate the full nonlinear viscoelastic rheology. We show that these conditions are controlled by the order of magnitude of the viscosity ratio of the liquid layers and their thickness ratio. For pure Newtonian flow, these conditions lead to a thin-film model that couples a layer with a parabolic flow field to a layer described by elongational flow. For this system we establish asymptotic regimes that relate the viscosity ratio to a corresponding apparent slip. We then use numerical simulations to discuss the characteristic morphological and dynamical properties of viscoelastic films of corotational Jeffreys type dewetting from a solid as well as liquid substrate.
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    Impact of interfacial slip on the stability of liquid two-layer polymer films
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2012) Jachalski, Sebastian; Peschka, Dirk; Münch, Andreas; Wagner, Barbara
    In this study systems of coupled thin-film models for two immiscible liquid polymer layers on a solid substrate that account for interfacial slip and intermolecular forces are derived. On the scale of tens to hundred nanometers such two-layer systems are susceptable to instability and may rupture and dewet. The stability of the two-layer system and its significant dependence on the order of magnitude of slip is investigated via these thin-film models. With no-slip at both, the liquid-liquid and liquid-solid interface and polymer layers of comparable thickness, the dispersion relation typically shows two local maxima, one in the long-wave regime and the other at moderate wavenumbers. The former is associated with perturbations that mainly affect the gas-liquid interface and the latter with higher relative perturbation amplitudes at the liquid-liquid interface. Slip at the liquid-liquid interface generally favors the former perturbations. However, when the liquid-liquid and the liquidsolid interface exhibit large slip, the maxima shift to small wavenumbers for increasing slip and hence may significantly change the spinodal patterns.