Four-phase merging in sessile compound drops

DOI10.1017/S0022112001007108zbMath1005.76014OpenAlexW2026956826MaRDI QIDQ4331133

L. Mahadevan, Yves Pomeau, Mokhtar Adda-Bedia

Publication date: 24 February 2003

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112001007108

zbMATH Keywords

contact linecapillarityinterfacial energiestopological transitionsdroplet volumesfour-phase mergingmacroscopic Young-Laplace lawsessile compound drops

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Three or more component flows (76T30)

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