Critical dynamics of contact line depinning
- 1 April 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 49 (4) , R2532-R2535
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.49.r2532
Abstract
The depinning of a contact line is studied as a dynamical critical phenomenon by a functional renormalization group technique. In D=2-ε interface dimensions, the roughness exponent is ζ=ε/3 to all orders in perturbation theory. Thus, ζ=1/3 for the contact line, equal to the Imry-Ma estimate of Huse for the equilibrium roughness. The dynamical exponent is z=1-2ε/9+O()
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