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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics Année : 2007

Wetting and minimal surfaces

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We study minimal surfaces which arise in wetting and capillarity phenomena. Using conformal coordinates, we reduce the problem to a set of coupled boundary equations for the contact line of the fluid surface, and then derive simple diagrammatic rules to calculate the non-linear corrections to the Joanny-de Gennes energy. We argue that perturbation theory is quasi-local, i.e. that all geometric length scales of the fluid container decouple from the short-wavelength deformations of the contact line. This is illustrated by a calculation of the linearized interaction between contact lines on two opposite parallel walls. We present a simple algorithm to compute the minimal surface and its energy based on these ideas. We also point out the intriguing singularities that arise in the Legendre transformation from the pure Dirichlet to the mixed Dirichlet-Neumann problem.

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hal-02281103 , version 1 (07-09-2019)

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Constantin P. Bachas, Pierre Le Doussal, Kay Jörg Wiese. Wetting and minimal surfaces. Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2007, 75 (3), ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.75.031601⟩. ⟨hal-02281103⟩
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