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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik

CPP 39: Wetting, Micro and nanofluidics II

CPP 39.9: Talk

Friday, March 30, 2012, 11:45–12:00, C 243

Theory of water and charged liquid bridges — •Klaus Morawetz — Münster University of Applied Sciences, Stegerwaldstrasse 39, 48565 Steinfurt, Germany — International Institute of Physics (IIP) Av. Odilon Gomes de Lima 1722, 59078-400 Natal, Brazil — Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, 01187 Dresden, Germany

The phenomena of liquid bridge formation due to an applied electric field is investigated. A new solution of a charged catenary is presented which allows to determine the static and dynamical stability conditions where charged liquid bridges are possible. The creeping height, the bridge radius and length as well as the shape of the bridge is calculated showing an asymmetric profile in agreement with observations. The flow profile is calculated from the Navier Stokes equation leading to a mean velocity which combines charge transport with neutral mass flow and which describes recent experiments on water bridges.
arXiv:1107.0459