Width distribution of contact lines on a disordered substrate
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We have studied the roughness of a contact line of a liquid meniscus on a disordered substrate by measuring its width distribution. The comparison between the measured width distribution and the width distribution calculated in previous works, extended here to the case of open boundary conditions, confirms that the Joanny-de Gennes model is not sufficient to describe the dynamics of contact lines at the depinning threshold. This conclusion is in agreement with recent measurements which determine the roughness exponent by extrapolation to large system sizes.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0310173,
title = {Width distribution of contact lines on a disordered substrate},
author = {Sebastien Moulinet and Alberto Rosso and Werner Krauth and Etienne Rolley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0310173},
year = {2007}
}
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4 pages, 3 figures