Flow and Drop Transport Along Liquid-Infused Surfaces

Liquid-infused surfaces (LISs) are composite solid–liquid with remarkable features such as liquid repellency, self-healing, and the suppression of fouling. This review focuses on fluid mechanics LISs, that is, interaction a flow field behavior drops surfaces. LISs can be characterized by an effective slip length is closely related to their drag reduction property, which makes them suitable for several applications, especially turbulent flows. Drag reduction, however, compromised failure mechanisms drainage lubricant from surface textures. The also sculpt layer in coupled self-organization process. For drops, reduces drop pinning increases mobility, but results wetting ridge associated concept apparent contact angle. Design LIS wettability topography induce low-friction motion, dynamically shape ridges film thickness.