Microscopic Model of Upward Creep of an Ultrathin Wetting Film
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 76 (1) , 86-89
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.76.86
Abstract
We propose a microscopic, analytically solvable model describing the growth of a thin wetting film climbing on a solid wall (or a fiber) from the bath of liquid. We find analytically that both the length and the mass of the film grow with time as , in accord with experimental observations, and specify the physical mechanism responsible for such behavior.
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