What is it about?

The acceleration of the advancing contactline when it impact a disturbance (particle). The experimental results are found to agree with a simple theoretical model.

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Why is it important?

It describes physical mechanism during the wetting process when a triple contactline impacts a disturbance

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The effect of multiple disturbances on the pathway of an advancing contactline.

Professor Farzam Zoueshtiagh
Université de Lille

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This page is a summary of: Sharp acceleration of a macroscopic contact line induced by a particle, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, September 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2017.627.
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