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Modified Cahn model for surface tension with the presence of a contact line applied to regular solutions

Fluid Dynamics 2014-08-26 v3

Abstract

We derive the interfacial tension of a semi infinite two phase binary mixture of partially miscible fluids in contact with a planar surface. In our model we take a surface free energy term into account omitted by Cahn [J. W. Cahn, J. Chemical Physics, 66:3667-3672,1977]. Our analysis applied to the case of regular solutions shows that this extra surface free energy term cannot a priori be neglected.

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@article{arxiv.1406.4715,
  title  = {Modified Cahn model for surface tension with the presence of a contact line applied to regular solutions},
  author = {Lionel Hirschberg and Avraham Hirschberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.4715},
  year   = {2014}
}