Effective and microscopic contact angles in thin film dynamics

MICHIEL BERTSCH; ROBERTA DAL PASSO; STEPHEN H. DAVIS; LORENZO GIACOMELLI

doi:10.1017/S0956792599004015

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We introduce and analyse a class of quasi-self-similar solutions of the thin film equation to describe the dynamics of expanding liquid films on a solid surface. Using these solutions as intermediate asymptotics profiles, we obtain a quantitative expression for the shape of the film and a relation between the speed of the contact line and the macroscopic and microscopic contact angles.

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