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Effects of heterogenous wettability on evaporation from a simulated soil pore: Stick-slip evaporative mode and contact line motion

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العنوان: Effects of heterogenous wettability on evaporation from a simulated soil pore: Stick-slip evaporative mode and contact line motion
المؤلفون: Pakkebier, Jack, Chakraborty, Partha P., Derby, Melanie M.
المساهمون: National Science Foundation
المصدر: AIP Advances ; volume 14, issue 3 ; ISSN 2158-3226
بيانات النشر: AIP Publishing
سنة النشر: 2024
مصطلحات موضوعية: General Physics and Astronomy
الوصف: The Ogallala Aquifer, a primary irrigation water source in the High Plains region of the United States, is declining, thereby necessitating new water conservation strategies. This paper investigates the impact of mixed wettability on the evaporation dynamics of a 10-µl sessile water droplet placed within simulated soil pores comprised of hydrophobic Teflon beads (CA ∼ 108°) and hydrophilic glass (CA ∼ 41°) beads with 2.38-mm diameters, where homogeneous and heterogenous (i.e., mixed hydrophobicity and hydrophilicity) wettability configurations were investigated. Experiments were performed in an environmental chamber where the relative humidity and temperature were 60% ± 0.1% RH and 20 ± 0.4 °C, respectively. Wettability influenced evaporation times, with homogeneous hydrophobic pores (i.e., three Teflon beads) and heterogenous one glass, two Teflon pores having the longest average evaporation times of 40 and 39 min, respectively. Homogeneous hydrophilic pores (i.e., three glass beads) and heterogenous two glass, one Teflon pores exhibited evaporation times of 34 min. Evaporation times for heterogenous combinations trended based on the predominant wettability. Contact angles and the projected length of contact were analyzed from videos to capture pinning and depinning during evaporation. For many cases including hydrophobicity, contact angles were less than 90°, and in some configurations, water would be pinned on a Teflon bead, whereas depinning (i.e., moving) on a glass bead. Stick-slip evaporation was observed, where the evaporating droplet switched between constant contact radius and constant contact area evaporative modes to minimize droplet surface energy. The results suggest wettability alterations in agricultural settings may reduce evaporation.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
DOI: 10.1063/5.0193326
DOI: 10.1063/5.0193326/19732610/035127_1_5.0193326.pdf
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0193326Test
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.6BA4DBA4
قاعدة البيانات: BASE