Relaxation of a Moving Contact Line and Landau-Levich Effect

The dynamics of the deformations of a moving contact line is formulated. It is shown that an advancing contact line relaxes more quickly as compared to the equilibium case, while for a receding contact line there is a corresponding slowing down. For a receding contact line on a heterogeneous solid s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Golestanian, R, Raphael, E
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2000