Abstract
The effect of wetting difference across the junction of smooth and groove‐textured portions of a dual‐textured surface on the various stages in the dynamics of liquid drops impacting on the junction is reported. Two dual‐textured surfaces with substantially different wetting difference across their junction, Δθe = 65° and 25°, made of intrinsically hydrophilic stainless steel and intrinsically hydrophobic poly‐di‐methyl‐siloxane (PDMS) are considered. The effect of wetting difference across the junction is dominantly seen on the net drop drift velocity and subsequent bulk drop movement, ξ. ξ on the PDMS dual‐textured surface is less than that on the stainless dual‐textured surface due to the lower wetting difference across the junction of the former. The variation of ξ with impact velocity shows a contrasting trend between the stainless steel and PDMS dual‐textured surfaces due to the difference in critical impact velocity corresponding to drop impregnation on their groove‐textured portions. © 2016 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 62: 4109–4118, 2016
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