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SIAM JOURNAL ON CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION
Volume 59, Issue 2, Pages 1057-1082Publisher
SIAM PUBLICATIONS
DOI: 10.1137/20M1317773
Keywords
optimal control; moving contact line dynamics; phase field modeling; drop phenomena
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- German Research Foundation (DFG) [392533833]
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This study investigates the optimal control of shaping and positioning droplets on a solid surface by considering a phase field model and contact line dynamics. It is found that effective control can be achieved by manipulating the contact angles between droplets and the solid surface. Additionally, the study discusses the regularity of solutions and the existence of optimal solutions to the control problem.
Controlling the shape and position of moving and pinned droplets on a solid surface is an important feature often found in microfluidic applications. In this work, we consider a well investigated phase field model including contact line dynamics as the state system for an (open-loop) optimal control problem. Here the spatially and temporally changeable contact angles between droplet and solid are considered as the control variables. We consider a suitable, energy stable, time discrete version of the state equation in our optimal control problem. We discuss regularity of the solution to the time discrete state equation and its continuity and differentiability properties. Furthermore, we show existence of solutions and state first order optimality conditions to the optimal control problem. We illustrate our results by actively pushing a droplet uphill against gravity in an optimal way.
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