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Reaction Kinetics Effects on Reactive Wetting
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2011
Abstract
Chemical reactions at the interface between two liquids and a solid can lead to very complex situations. For example, after the reaction the substrate may become less wettable allowing the formation of running droplets. We propose a model where droplets of reactive fluids of a given radius, are injected into a porous system. In their advance, the droplets react chemically with the solid surface, making it less wettable. The velocity of the droplet after the reaction is calculated for different reaction kinetics including adsorption and solute solubility, for situations where gravity effects are negligible. In all cases, a transition from a Brownian motion regime to a ballistic displacement is observed.
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