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A localised overpressure translating at a uniform speed greater than a critical value acts at the interface between two deep fluid layers with different densities. We analyse the resulting wave patterns using an initial-value problem…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-13 Vinod Kumar Kadari , Nikhil Yewale , Palas Kumar Farsoiya , Y. S. Mayya , Ratul Dasgupta

{Three-wave resonant interactions constitute an essential nonlinear mechanism coupling capillary surface waves. In a previous work, Haudin et al. [Phys. Rev E 93, 043110 (2016)], we have characterized experimentally the generation by this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-07-11 Annette Cazaubiel , Florence Haudin , Eric Falcon , Michael Berhanu

The effective capillary interaction potentials for small colloidal particles trapped at the surface of liquid droplets are calculated analytically. Pair potentials between capillary monopoles and dipoles, corresponding to particles floating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-27 J. Guzowski , M. Tasinkevych , S. Dietrich

We explore a computational model of an incompressible fluid with a multi-phase field in three-dimensional Euclidean space. By investigating an incompressible fluid with a two-phase field geometrically, we reformulate the expression of the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2011-08-04 Shigeki Matsutani , Kota Nakano , Katsuhiko Shinjo

By solving the Young Laplace equation of capillary hydrostatics one can accurately determine equilibrium shapes of droplets on relatively smooth solid surfaces. The solution, however of the Young Laplace equation becomes tricky when a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-05 Nikolaos T. Chamakos , Michail E. Kavousanakis , Athanasios G. Papathanasiou

Capillary forces guide the motion of biomolecular condensates, water-borne insects, and breakfast cereal. These surface-mediated interactions can be harnessed to build units into materials with exotic properties deriving from mesoscale…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-22 Anshu Thapa , Robert Malinowski , Matthew O. Blunt , Giorgio Volpe , Joe Forth

The problem of surface effects at a fluid/force field boundary is investigated. A classical simple fluid with a locally introduced field simulating a solid is considered. For the case of a hard-core field, rigid, exponential, realistic, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-08 V. M. Zaskulnikov

The equilibrium contact angle of a droplet resting on a solid substrate can reveal essential properties of the solid's surface. However, when the motion of a droplet on a surface shows significant hysteresis, it is generally accepted that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-14 Jin Young Kim , Stefanie Heyden , Dominic Gerber , Nicolas Bain , Eric R. Dufresne , Robert W. Style

Capillary interactions can be used to direct assembly of particles adsorbed at fluid-fluid interfaces. Precisely controlling the magnitude and direction of capillary interactions to assemble particles into favoured structures for materials…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-07-11 Qingguang Xie , Gary B. Davies , Jens Harting

Form a pure mathematical point of view, common functional forms representing different physical phenomena can be defined. For example, rates of chemical reactions, diffusion and heat transfer are all governed by exponential-type…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Navid Zobeiry , Keith D. Humfeld

Capillary interactions have emerged as a tool for the directed assembly of particles adsorbed at fluid-fluid interfaces, and play a role in controlling the mechanical properties of emulsions and foams. In this paper, following Davies et al.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-23 Gary B. Davies , Lorenzo Botto

We show that a laser beam which propagates through an optical medium with Kerr (focusing) and higher order (defocusing) nonlinearities displays pressure and surface-tension properties yielding capillarity and dripping effects totally…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-03-26 David Novoa , Humberto Michinel , Daniele Tommasini

Active particles driven by colored noise can be approximately mapped onto a system that obeys detailed balance. The effective interactions which can be derived for such a system allow to describe the structure and phase behavior of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-30 René Wittmann , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Claudio Maggi , Joseph M. Brader

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Constantin Bachas , Pierre Le Doussal , Kay Joerg Wiese

A sessile liquid drop can deform the substrate on which it rests if the solid is sufficiently "soft". In this paper we compute the detailed spatial structure of the capillary forces exerted by the drop on the solid substrate using a model…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-27 Siddhartha Das , Antonin Marchand , Bruno Andreotti , Jacco H. Snoeijer

Motivated by the still ongoing debate about the various possible meanings of the term surface tension of bilayer membranes, we present here a detailed discussion that explains the differences between the "intrinsic", "renormalized", and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-03 Oded Farago

When a fluid surface adheres to a substrate, the location of the contact line adjusts in order to minimize the overall energy. This adhesion balance implies boundary conditions which depend on the characteristic surface deformation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-11-09 Markus Deserno , Martin M. Mueller , Jemal Guven

We consider a classical problem of a capillary neck between a parabolic body and a plane with a small amount of liquid in between. In the state of thermodynamic equilibrium, the contact area between the bodies and the liquid layer has a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-12-29 Valentin L. Popov

Even though the study of interfacial phenomena dates back to Laplace and was formalised by Gibbs, it appears that some concepts and relations among them are still causing some confusion and debates in the literature, particularly for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-30 Nicodemo Di Pasquale , Ruslan L. Davidchack

The application of the Young-Laplace equation to a solid-liquid interface is considered. Computer simulations show that the pressure inside a solid cluster of hard spheres is smaller than the external pressure of the liquid (both for small…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-24 P. Montero de Hijes , K. Shi , E. G. Noya , E. E. Santiso , K. E. Gubbins , E. Sanz , C. Vega