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Specialized Inter-Particle Interaction Lbm For Patterned Superhydrophobic Surfaces, Amal Saeed Yagub
Specialized Inter-Particle Interaction Lbm For Patterned Superhydrophobic Surfaces, Amal Saeed Yagub
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SPECIALIZED INTER-PARTICLE INTERACTION LBM FOR PATTERNED SUPERHYDROPHOBIC SURFACES
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AMAL S. YAGUB
ABSTRACT:
Superhydrophobic surface characteristics are important in many industrial applications, ranging from the textile to the military. It was observed that surfaces fabricated with nano/micro roughness can manipulate the droplet contact angle, thus providing an opportunity to control the droplet wetting characteristics. The Shan and Chen (SC) lattice Boltzmann model (LBM) is a good numerical tool, which holds strong potentials to qualify for simulating droplets wettability. This is due to its realistic nature of droplet contact angle (CA) prediction on flat smooth surfaces. But SC-LBM was not able …