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| Title: | Microscopic model for thin film spreading |
| Author(s): | Abraham, Douglas B.
Cuerno, Rodolfo
Moro, Esteban |
| Publisher: | The American Physical Society |
| Issued date: | 20-May-2002 |
| Citation: | Physical Review Letters 88, 206101 (2002) |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10016/6924 |
| ISSN: | 0031-9007 (Print)
1079-7114 (Online) |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.206101 |
| Description: | 4 pages, 3 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 68.08.Bc, 05.70.Np, 64.60.Ht, 68.15.+e.
ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0201218
Final publisher version available Open Access at: http://gisc.uc3m.es/~cuerno/publ_list.html |
| Abstract: | A microscopic, driven lattice gas model is proposed for the dynamics and spatiotemporal fluctuations of the precursor film observed in spreading experiments. Matter is transported both by holes and particles, and the distribution of each can be described by driven diffusion with a moving boundary. This picture leads to a stochastic partial differential equation for the shape of the boundary. Explicit analytic results are obtained which agree with the simulations of the lattice gas. |
| Sponsor: | This research has been supported by EPSRC (U.K.) Grant No. GR/M04426, by E.U. Grant No. HPMF-CT- 2000-0487, by DGES (Spain) Grants No. HB1999-0018 and No. BFM2000-0006, and by the British Council through the Acciones Integradas program. |
| Review: | PeerReviewed |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.206101 |
| Keywords: | [PACS] Wetting
[PACS] Interface and surface thermodynamics
[PACS] Dynamic critical phenomena
[PACS] Liquid thin films |
| Rights: | © The American Physical Society |
| Appears in Collections: | DM - GISC - Artículos de Revistas
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