Abstract
We investigate the problem of transport of a single fluid droplet through a non-wettable superhydrophobic porous medium. A mechanical soft body model is developed and used to simulate the process of pushing fluid droplets through pore space of a random porous medium. Path lines of the center of mass of each droplet are used to calculate tortuosity of the media. Our results show that droplet based tortuosity increases with decreasing porosity of the porous samples. Although qualitatively this agrees with the behaviour observed for tortuosity derived from the fluid flow, the form of this relation is different.
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