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Slip length of confined liquid with small roughness of solid-liquid interfaces
1Department of Physics, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
We have studied the slip length of confined liquid with small roughness of solid-liquid interfaces. Dyadic Green function and perturbation expansion have been applied to get the slip length quantitatively. In the slip length, both the effects of the roughness of the interfaces and the chemical interaction between the liquid and the solid surface are involved. For the numerical calculation, Monte Carlo method has been used to simulate the rough interfaces and the physical quantities are obtained statistically over the interfaces. Results show that the total slip length of the system is linearly proportional to the slip length contributed from the chemical interaction. And the roughness of the interfaces plays its role as the proportionality factor. For the roughness, the variance of the roughness decreases the total slip length while the correlation length of the roughness can enhance the slip length dramatically to a saturation value.
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