Moving contact lines: Scales, regimes, and dynamical transitions

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 45, Issue , 2013, Pages 269-292

  Snoeijer, Jacco H ^a   Andreotti, Bruno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

contact angle; interface dynamics; lubrication; spreading; wetting; wetting transitions

Indexed keywords

AIR BUBBLES; CONTACT LINE MOTION; CONTACT LINES; DRY REGION; DYNAMICAL REGIME; DYNAMICAL TRANSITION; INTERFACE DYNAMIC; MICROSCOPIC PROCESS; MOVING CONTACT LINES; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SOLID SURFACE; SPREADING; THREE-PHASE CONTACT LINE; WETTING TRANSITIONS;

AIR ENTRAINMENT; CONTACT ANGLE; LUBRICATION; MAGNETIC BUBBLES;

WETTING;

AIR BUBBLE; CONTACT ZONE; ENTRAINMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILM; INTERFACE; LUBRICANT; THEORETICAL STUDY; WETTING;

EID: 84872236975     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-fluid-011212-140734     Document Type: Review

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