Electrowetting with contact line pinning: Computational modeling and comparisons with experiments

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Walker, Shawn W ^a   Shapiro, Benjamin ^b   Nochetto, Ricardo H ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; CONTACT ANGLE; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DROPS; HYSTERESIS; SURFACE TENSION; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; WETTING;

CONTACT ANGLE HYSTERESIS; CONTACT ANGLE SATURATION; CONTACT LINE PINNING; ELECTRO-WETTING ON DIELECTRICS; FINITE-ELEMENT DISCRETIZATION; MODEL AND SIMULATION; SURFACE TENSION EFFECTS; VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 71049166318     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3254022     Document Type: Article

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