Can nonlinear elasticity explain contact-line roughness at depinning?
We examine whether cubic nonlinearities, allowed by symmetry in the elastic energy of a contact line, may result in a different universality class at depinning. Standard linear elasticity predicts a roughness exponent zeta = 1/3 (one loop), zeta = 0.388 +/- 0.002 (numerics) while experiments give ze...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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