Detection of advancing edge and length of precursor film ahead of macroscopic contact line of droplet spreading on solid substrate

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1161, Issue , 2009, Pages 292-303

  Konisho, Takumi ^a   Ueno, Ichiro ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contact line; High speed camera; Interferometer; Precursor film; Spreading; Wavelet transformation; Wetting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CAMERA; DYNAMIC EXERCISE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILM; GAS; INTERFEROMETER; LIQUID; MOTION; NOISE; PREDICTION; SOLID; VISCOSITY;

EID: 65249134460     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.04074.x     Document Type: Article

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