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Previous works mostly focused on compound droplets on planar surfaces and, as such, the effects of curved walls have not been studied thoroughly. In this paper, the influence of the properties of curved solid wall (including the shape, curvature, and contact angle) on the wetting behavior of compound droplets is explored. The axisymmetric lattice Boltzmann method, based on the conservative phase field formulation for ternary fluids, was used to numerically study the wetting and spreading of a compound droplet of the Janus type on various curved solid walls at large density ratios, focusing on whether the separation of compound droplets occurs. Several types of wall geometries were considered, including a planar wall, a concave wall with constant curvature, and a convex wall with fixed or variable curvature (specifically, a prolate or oblate spheroid). The effects of surface wettability, interfacial angles, and the density ratio (of droplet to ambient fluid) on the wetting process were also explored. In general, it was found that, under otherwise identical conditions, droplet separation tends to happen more likely on more hydrophilic walls, under larger interfacial angles (measured inside the droplet), and at larger density ratios. On convex walls, a larger radius of curvature of the surface near the droplet was found to be helpful to split the Janus droplet. On concave walls, as the radius of curvature increases from a small value, the possibility to observe droplet separation first increases and then decreases. Several phase diagrams on whether droplet separation occurs during the spreading process were produced for different kinds of walls to illustrate the influences of various factors.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e26020172","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,19]],"date-time":"2024-02-19T04:39:36Z","timestamp":1708317576000},"page":"172","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Wetting and Spreading Behavior of Axisymmetric Compound Droplets on Curved Solid Walls Using Conservative Phase Field Lattice Boltzmann Method"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"26","author":[{"given":"Yue","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Aerospace Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8111-0583","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jun-Jie","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Aerospace Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China"},{"name":"Chongqing Key Laboratory of Heterogeneous Material Mechanics, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2034","DOI":"10.1016\/j.matt.2023.04.017","article-title":"Programmable pulsed aerodynamic printing for multi-interface composite manufacturing","volume":"6","author":"Zhu","year":"2023","journal-title":"Matter"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"199","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ces.2017.12.013","article-title":"Engineering polymeric janus particles for drug delivery using microfluidic solvent dissolution approach","volume":"178","author":"Sundararajan","year":"2017","journal-title":"Chem. 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