Curvature boundary condition for a moving contact line

Effective wall boundary conditions are very important for simulating multi-phase flows involving a moving contact line. In this paper we present a curvature boundary condition to circumvent the difficulties of previous approaches on explicitly imposing the contact angle and with respect to mass-loss artifacts near the wall boundary. While employing the asymptotic theory of Cox for imposing an effective curvature directly at the wall surface, the present method avoids a mismatch between the exact and the numerical contact angles. Test simulations on drop spreading and multi-phase flow in a channel show that the present method achieves grid-convergent results and ensures mass conservation, and delivers good agreement with theoretical, numerical and experimental data. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.