Equation of motion of the triple contact line along a inhomogeneous surface

Vadim Nikolayev (1, 2) , Daniel Beysens (1)

1 SBT - Service des Basses Températures
2 ICMCB - Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux

The wetting flow are controlled by the contact line motion. We derive an equation that describes the slow time evolution of the triple solid-liquid-fluid contact line...

Mots clés: Wetting; Fluctuation phenomena

Domaines: Matériaux

Vadim Nikolayev, Daniel Beysens. Equation of motion of the triple contact line along a inhomogeneous surface. EPL - Europhysics Letters, 2003, 64 (6), pp.763-768. ⟨hal-00171708⟩