A kinetic theory description of liquid menisci at the microscale

DOI10.3934/KRM.2015.8.235zbMath1362.82044OpenAlexW2330748606MaRDI QIDQ888725

Paolo Barbante, Aldo Frezzotti, Livio Gibelli

Publication date: 2 November 2015

Published in: Kinetic and Related Models (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3934/krm.2015.8.235

zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlo simulationkinetic modelnumerical solutionsfluid-wall interactionscapillary flowsEnskog-Vlasov equationLaplace-Kelvin equationmeniscus breakage

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Statistical mechanics of metals (82D35) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Statistical mechanics of liquids (82D15)

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