Macroscopic contact angle and liquid drops on rough solid surfaces via homogenization and numerical simulations

DOI10.1051/m2an/2012048zbMath1307.76040MaRDI QIDQ5299858

Simone Cacace, Antonin Chambolle, Livio Fedeli, Antonio De Simone

Publication date: 24 June 2013

Published in: ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1051/m2an/2012048

zbMATH Keywords

total variation; homogenization; wetting; augmented Lagrangian; non-smooth optimization; super-hydrophobic surfaces; contact-angle hysteresis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

49Q20: Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting

76D45: Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids

74N30: Problems involving hysteresis in solids

49S05: Variational principles of physics

65K15: Numerical methods for variational inequalities and related problems