Critical effects and scaling at meniscus osculation transitions

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.106.054802" target="_blank" >10.1103/PhysRevE.106.054802</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Critical effects and scaling at meniscus osculation transitions

Original language description

We propose a simple scaling theory describing critical effects at rounded meniscus osculation transitions which occur when the Laplace radius of a condensed macroscopic drop of liquid coincides with the local radius of curvature Rw in a confining parabolic geometry. We argue that the exponent βosc characterizing the scale of the interfacial height ℓ0 ∝ Rw^βosc at osculation, for large Rw, falls into two regimes representing fluctuation-dominated and mean-field-like behavior, respectively. These two regimes are separated by an upper critical dimension, which is determined here explicitly and depends on the range of the intermolecular forces. In the fluctuation-dominated regime, representing the universality class of systems with short-range forces, the exponent is related to the value of the interfacial wandering exponent ζ by βosc = 3ζ/(4-ζ). In contrast, in the mean-field regime, which was not previously identified and which occurs for systems with longer-range forces (and higher dimensions), the exponent βosc takes the same value as the exponent βs^co for complete wetting, which is determined directly by the intermolecular forces. The prediction βosc = 3/7 in d = 2 for systems with short-range forces (corresponding to ζ = 1/2) is confirmed using an interfacial Hamiltonian model which determines the exact scaling form for the decay of the interfacial height probability distribution function. A numerical study in d = 3, based on a microscopic model density-functional theory, determines that βosc ≈ βs^co ≈0.326 close to the predicted value of 1/3 appropriate to the mean-field regime for dispersion forces.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10305 - Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PHYSICAL REVIEW E

ISSN

2470-0045

e-ISSN

2470-0053

Volume of the periodical

106

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

054802

UT code for WoS article

000891636900013

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85143896254