Nonlinear dynamics and transient growth of driven contact lines

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1999

Abstract

We consider the theory of driven contact lines in a complete wetting scenario and examine the effect of small scale localized surface disturbances on the global shape of the film profile. We compute how the nonlinear amplification scales with the precursor thickness of the film and the characteristic width of the surface pattern. Nonlinear disturbances of the film profile are connected to "transient growth" in the linear stability analysis [Phys. Fluids 9, 530 (1997)]. © 1999 American Institute of Physics.

Identifier

0001650102 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Physics of Fluids

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.870213

ISSN

10706631

First Page

3560

Last Page

3562

Issue

11

Volume

11

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