Viscous fingering in volatile thin films
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-13 v2
Abstract
A thin water film on a cleaved mica substrate undergoes a first order phase transition between two values of film thickness. By inducing a finite evaporation rate of the water, the interface between the two phases develops a fingering instability similar to that observed in the Saffman-Taylor problem. We draw the connection between the two problems, and construct solutions describing the dynamics of evaporation in this system.
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@article{arxiv.0809.0366,
title = {Viscous fingering in volatile thin films},
author = {Oded Agam},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.0366},
year = {2009}
}
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Published version, 4 pages