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    A lumped parameter model to describe the electromechanics of mesoscale droplets

    Date
    2022-02-04
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    Memon, Faisal Bilal
    Prathyusha, Vishwa Sai
    Bururgupally, Sindhu Preetham
    Li, Bin
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    Faisal Bilal Memon, Vishwa Sai Prathyusha, Sindhu Preetham Burugupally, and Bin Li , "A lumped parameter model to describe the electromechanics of mesoscale droplets", Physics of Fluids 34, 027107 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0079557
    Abstract
    An understanding of droplet electromechanics will advance the development of droplet-based technologies, such as lab-on-chip platforms, precision additive manufacturing tools, and fluid property sensors. To describe the electromechanics of mesoscale droplets, a simplified mathematical model is derived by treating the droplet as a spring–mass–damper system and validated with finite-element simulation and experiments. Through the model and experiments, the role of fluid properties on droplet electromechanics is investigated using different fluids—with over three orders of magnitude in dynamic viscosity—for a range of actuation voltage amplitudes $\overline{V}$ and frequencies f. Despite the simplified modeling approach, the lumped model predicts two important droplet characteristic parameters: coalescence time tc and critical electric field $E_{cr}$ with less than 30% error. Three observations are reported here: (1) applying the scaling laws to the electric field–time E–t relation for $E≫E_{cr}$ shows that the coalescence time tc is proportional to the droplet length scale characterized in terms of radius r; (2) at lower voltage actuation frequencies $f  \le 10 Hz$ and sub-critical electric fields $E≪E_{cr},$ the droplet dynamics is strongly dependent on the surface tension, while at higher voltage actuation frequencies $f  \le 10 Hz$, the droplet dynamics is dictated by all the three fluid properties, namely, surface tension, viscosity, and density; and (3) droplets of different fluids exhibit characteristics of a second-order system—validating our approach of modeling the droplet as the spring–mass–damper system.
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    https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0079557
    https://soar.wichita.edu/handle/10057/22839
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