Abstract
The wetting properties of a solid surface by a liquid are very sensitive to surface heterogeneities: the contact line becomes wiggly, and the final equilibrium structure of the liquid droplet or liquid film on the surface is history dependent on a heterogeneous surface (in the case of partial wetting, this phenomenon is known as contact angle hysteresis). We study here the statistics of a wiggly contact line on a heterogeneous solid, both for totally or partially wetting fluids.
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Joanny, J.F. (1985). Wetting of a Random Surface: Statistics of the Contact Line. In: Boccara, N., Daoud, M. (eds) Physics of Finely Divided Matter. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93301-1_40
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