dc.contributor.author | Tran, Du Tuan | |
dc.contributor.author | Nguyen, Nhat-Khuong | |
dc.contributor.author | Singha, Pradip | |
dc.contributor.author | Nguyen, Nam-Trung | |
dc.contributor.author | Ooi, Chin Hong | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-30T05:46:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-11-30T05:46:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2227-9717 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/pr9112081 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/410447 | |
dc.description.abstract | Modelling the profile of a liquid droplet has been a mainstream technique for researchers to study the physical properties of a liquid. This study proposes a facile modelling approach using an elliptic model to generate the profile of sessile droplets, with MATLAB as the simulation environment. The concept of the elliptic method is simple and easy to use. Only three specific points on the droplet are needed to generate the complete theoretical droplet profile along with its critical parameters such as volume, surface area, height, and contact radius. In addition, we introduced fitting coefficients to accurately determine the contact angle and surface tension of a droplet. Droplet volumes ranging from 1 to 300 µL were chosen for this investigation, with contact angles ranging from 90° to 180°. Our proposed method was also applied to images of actual water droplets with good results. This study demonstrates that the elliptic method is in excellent agreement with the Young–Laplace equation and can be used for rapid and accurate approximation of liquid droplet profiles to determine the surface tension and contact angle. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | en | |
dc.publisher | MDPI AG | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 2081 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 11 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Processes | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 9 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Microfluidics and nanofluidics | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Chemical engineering | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 401210 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 4004 | |
dc.title | Modelling Sessile Droplet Profile Using Asymmetrical Ellipses | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Tran, DT; Nguyen, N-K; Singha, P; Nguyen, N-T; Ooi, CH, Modelling Sessile Droplet Profile Using Asymmetrical Ellipses, Processes, 9 (11), pp. 2081 | |
dcterms.license | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.date.updated | 2021-11-30T02:22:50Z | |
dc.description.version | Version of Record (VoR) | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Ooi, Chin Hong | |
gro.griffith.author | Nguyen, Nam-Trung | |