Line and boundary tensions on approach to the wetting transition

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العنوان: Line and boundary tensions on approach to the wetting transition
المؤلفون: B. Widom, Kenichiro Koga
المصدر: Journal of Chemical Physics. 127(6)
بيانات النشر: American Institute of Physics, 2007.
سنة النشر: 2007
مصطلحات موضوعية: ADSORPTION, Condensed matter physics, CONTACT, Tension (physics), Chemistry, ICE, General Physics and Astronomy, Boundary (topology), Mechanics, Surface tension, INTERFACE, MODEL, SUBSTRATE, Wetting transition, FLUID PHASES, Almost surely, Point (geometry), Wetting, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Line (formation), SURFACE PHASES
الوصف: A mean-field density-functional model often used in the past in the study of line and boundary tensions at wetting and prewetting transitions is reanalyzed by extensive numerical calculations, approaching the wetting transition much more closely than had previously been possible. The results are what are now believed to be definitive for the model. They include strong numerical evidence for the presence of the logarithmic factors predicted by theory both in the mode of approach of the prewetting line to the triple-point line at the point of the first-order wetting transition and in the line tension itself on approach to that point. It is also demonstrated with convincing numerical precision that the boundary tension on the prewetting line and the line tension on the triple-point line have a common limiting value at the wetting transition, again as predicted by theory. As a by product of the calculations, in the model's symmetric three-phase state, far from wetting, it is found that certain properties of the model's line tension and densities are almost surely given by simple numbers arising from the symmetries, but proving that these are exact for the model remains a challenge to analytical theory.
اللغة: English
تدمد: 0021-9606
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::63d08bc0a7381033068e8c5d9b3eae7a
https://ousar.lib.okayama-u.ac.jp/34157
Rights: OPEN
رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi.dedup.....63d08bc0a7381033068e8c5d9b3eae7a
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE