Coalescence of polymeric sessile drops on a partially wettable substrate

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Coalescence of sessile polymeric fluid drops on a partially wettable substrate exhibits a transition from the inertial to viscoelastic regime at concentration ratio c/c*∼1. Our findings unveil that the temporal evolution of the growing bridge height follows a power law behavior tb, such that the coefficient b continuously decreases from 2/3 in the inertial regime (c/c*<1) to an asymptotic value of 1/2 in the viscoelastic regime (c/c*>1). To account for fluid elasticity and characteristic timescale in the viscoelastic regime, a modified thin film equation under lubrication approximation has been proposed using the linear Phan–Thien–Tanner constitutive equation. The temporal evolution of the droplet has been evaluated by solving the modified one-dimensional thin film equation using a marching explicit scheme. The initial droplet shapes are obtained by resorting to energy minimization. Good agreement between numerical and experimental results is obtained.

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