Pattern formation in drying water films

N.m Samid-Merzel, S.g Lipson and D.s Tannhauser

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1998, vol. 257, issue 1, 413-418

Abstract: We describe experimental observations of water films evaporating from clean mica substrates. The films break up into coexisting thick and thin regions, the boundary between them forming well-defined patterns. The dynamic patterns demonstrate characteristic features which can be related to simulations of diffusion-limited growth in isotropic two-dimensional systems. The observations are related to a model for a volatile thin film bound to a substrate by both Van der Waals and polar forces.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00169-1

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