Near-critical spreading of droplets

Tanner’s law describes the spreading dynamics of droplets made of Newtonian viscous fluids. Here, the authors demonstrate that this law remains valid for phase-separated binary liquids close to their critical point, and thus for all the associated universality class.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Raphael Saiseau, Christian Pedersen, Anwar Benjana, Andreas Carlson, Ulysse Delabre, Thomas Salez, Jean-Pierre Delville
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35047-1