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General contact-angle conditions with and without kinetics


Authors: Sigurd Angenent and Morton E. Gurtin
Journal: Quart. Appl. Math. 54 (1996), 557-569
MSC: Primary 80A22; Secondary 76B45
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/1402410
MathSciNet review: MR1402410
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Abstract: The classical condition for the contact angle of a phase interface at a container wall is generalized to include both anisotropy and kinetics. The derivation, which does not involve an assumption of local equilibrium, is based on a capillary force balance, a dissipation inequality representing the second law, and suitable constitutive assumptions.


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