Initial rapid wetting in metallic systems |
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Authors: | Abdul Malik Tahir Gustav Amberg Minh Do-Quang |
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Affiliation: | Department of Mechanics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Osquars Backe18, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden |
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Abstract: | The initial rapid wetting of a solid surface by a liquid phase is an important step in many industrial processes. Liquid-phase sintering of powder metallurgical steels is one such industrial process, where metallic powders of micrometer size are used. Investigating the dynamic wetting of a high-temperature metallic drop of micrometer size experimentally is very challenging. Here, a phase-field-based numerical model is first implemented and verified by accurately capturing the initial dynamic wetting of millimeter-sized metal drops and then the model is extended to predict the dynamic wetting of a micrometer-sized metal drop. We found, in accordance with recent observations, that contact line friction is required for accurate simulation of dynamic wetting. Our results predict the wetting time for a micrometer-sized metal drop and also indicate that the dynamic wetting patterns at the micro- and millimeter length scales are qualitatively similar. We also found that the wetting process is much faster for a micrometer-sized metal drop compared to a millimeter-sized metal drop. |
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Keywords: | Dynamic wetting Phase field Contact line friction Millimeter- and micrometer-sized Cu drop Powder metallurgical steels |
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