Investigation of Flow in Microchannels with Superhydrophobic Surfaces Using Hybrid Direct Simulation Monte Carlo-Navier-Stokes Method with Information Preservation Approach

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Mechanical Department, Engineering Faculty, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran

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In recent years, superhydrophobic surfaces have received significant attention due to properties such as drag reduction and self-cleaning. A superhydrophobic surface can be made by grooving the wall. In this case, the flow of gas caught in grooves may represent the rarefied flow. Therefore, particle-based approaches such as direct simulation Monte Carlo should be employed to simulate the flow. In this paper, laminar flow in superhydrophobic microchannels with ribs and cavities aligned perpendicular to the channel axis is investigated using a hybrid direct simulation Monte Carlo-Navier[1]Stokes method. Also, information preservation technique is employed to reduce statistical fluctuations of the direct simulation Monte Carlo method. The effects of the length of the cavity on the flow parameters such as effective slip length, and velocity slip are investigated and the results are compared with the simplified method of using Navier-Stokes equations with shear-free boundary condition as the gas-liquid interface. It is shown that the differences between the hybrid method and shear-free solution increase as the shear-free fraction increases. However, the difference is less than 6% for cases studied in this work. Therefore, it is acceptable to use the shear-free approach to reduce computational costs. Especially for Fc < 0.2 where the difference is less than 3%.

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Amirkabir Journal of Mechanical Engineering
Volume 52, Issue 7
October 2020
Pages 1741-1756

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