par Tsoumpas, Ioannis
;Dehaeck, Sam
;Rednikov, Alexei
;Colinet, Pierre 
Référence Langmuir, 31, page (13334-13340)
Publication Publié, 2015-11-09




Référence Langmuir, 31, page (13334-13340)
Publication Publié, 2015-11-09
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : | Freely receding evaporating sessile droplets of perfectly wetting liquids, for which the observed finite contact angles are attributed to evaporation, are studied with a Mach−Zehnder interferometer. The experimentally obtained droplet shapes are found to depart, under some conditions, from the classical macroscopic static profile of a sessile droplet. The observed deviations (or the absence thereof) are explained in terms of a Marangoni flow due to evaporation-induced thermal gradients along the liquid−air interface. When such a Marangoni effect is strong, the experimental profiles exhibit a maximum of the slope at a certain distance from the contact line. In this case, the axisymmetric flow is directed from the contact line to the apex (along the liquid−air interface), hence delivering more liquid to the center of the droplet and making it appear inflated. These findings are quantitatively confirmed by predictions of a lubrication model accounting for the impact of the Marangoni effect on the droplet shape. |