Wetting transitions in polydisperse fluids

Details Wetting transitions in polydisperse fluids Wetting transitions in polydisperse fluids

2006-09-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0609118v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 Pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.136104

The properties of the coexisting bulk gas and liquid phases of a polydisperse fluid depend not only on the prevailing temperature, but also on the overall parent density. As a result, a polydisperse fluid near a wall will exhibit density-driven wetting transitions inside the coexistence region. We propose a likely topology for the wetting phase diagram, which we test using Monte Carlo simulations of a model polydisperse fluid at an attractive wall, tracing the wetting line inside the cloud curve and identifying the relationship to prewetting.

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