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Pedro H A Anjos1, Eduardo O Dias1, Laércio Dias1
1Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901, Brazil.
Abstract:
Probe-tack measurements evaluate the adhesion strength of viscous fluids confined between parallel plates. This is done by recording the adhesion force that is required to lift the upper plate, while the lower plate is kept at rest. During the lifting process, it is known that the interface separating the confined fluids is deformed, causing the emergence of intricate interfacial fingering structures. Existing meticulous experiments and intensive numerical simulations indicate that fingering formation affects the lifting force, causing a decrease in intensity. In this work, we propose an analytical model that computes the lifting adhesion force by taking into account not only the effect of interfacial fingering, but also the action of wetting and viscous normal stresses. The role played by the system's spatial confinement is also considered. We show that the incorporation of all these physical ingredients is necessary to provide a better agreement between theoretical predictions and experiments.
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