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Hydrodynamics of air entrainment by moving contact lines
T. S. Chan, S. Srivastava, A. Marchand +4
We study the dynamics of the interface between two immiscible fluids in contact with a chemically homogeneous moving solid plate. We consider the generic case of two fluids with an…
Why is surface tension a force parallel to the interface?
Antonin Marchand, Joost H. Weijs, Jacco H. Snoeijer +1
A paperclip can float on water. Drops of mercury refuse to spread on a surface. These capillary phenomena are macroscopic manifestations of molecular interactions, and can be expla…
Contact angles on a soft solid: from Young's law to Neumann's law
Antonin Marchand, Siddhartha Das, Jacco H. Snoeijer +1
The contact angle that a liquid drop makes on a soft substrate does not obey the classical Young's relation, since the solid is deformed elastically by the action of the capillary…
Capillary Pressure and Contact Line Force on a Soft Solid
Antonin Marchand, Siddhartha Das, Jacco H. Snoeijer +1
The surface free energy, or surface tension, of a liquid interface gives rise to a pressure jump when the interface is curved. Here we show that a similar capillary pressure arises…
Air Entrainment by Viscous Contact Lines
Antonin Marchand, Tak Shing Chan, Jacco H. Snoeijer +1
The entrainment of air by advancing contact lines is studied by plunging a solid plate into a very viscous liquid. Above a threshold velocity, we observe the formation of an extend…
Elastocapillary instability under partial wetting conditions: bending versus buckling
Bruno Andreotti, Antonin Marchand, Siddhartha Das +1
The elastocapillary instability of a flexible plate plunged in a liquid bath is analysed theoretically. We show that the plate can bend due to two separate destabilizing mechanisms…