Gravitational dependence of contact angle hysteresis for a solid defect pinning a liquid-vapor interface

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1997-12-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9712043v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Revtex, 7 pages

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We study the case of contact angle hysteresis, when a solid defect is quasi-statically pulled out and pushed into a liquid, in the presence of gravity. We solve the problem analytically in an approximation which, in the case of a truncated parabolic pinning force becomes exact in the the limit of slow variations in the height of the liquid vapour interface. The case of a Gaussian pinning force is solved by a geometrical construction. We show that the extension of the defect, and not the capillary length, is the determining length scale, when the extension of the defect is much smaller than the capillary length.

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