On surfactant-enhanced spreading and superspreading of liquid drops on solid surfaces

DOI10.1017/S0022112010005495zbMath1225.76040MaRDI QIDQ3097729

Omar K. Matar, Richard V. Craster, George Karapetsas

Publication date: 10 November 2011

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

contact linesdropsinterfacial flows (free surface)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thin fluid films (76A20) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45) Three or more component flows (76T30)

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