Quasi-wetting on a sphere

R. Hołyst and A. Poniewierski

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1988, vol. 149, issue 3, 622-630

Abstract: Wetting phenomena on a sphere of radius R are studied in the context of the Sullivan model. Neither a first nor a continuous transition is found for finite R. Only in the strict limit of R→∞ a second-order transition appears. For temperatures T higher than the wetting temperature in a flat geometry, T∞w, the thickness l of the enhanced density layer, which forms on the surface of the sphere, is for large R proportional to In R.

Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(88)90123-9

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