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Effect of transient pinning on stability of drops sitting on an inclined plane

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

V. Berejnov
R.E. Thorne

Abstract

We report on new instabilities of the quasistatic equilibrium of water drops pinned by a hydrophobic inclined substrate. The contact line of a statically pinned drop exhibits three transitions of partial depinning: depinning of the advancing and receding parts of the contact line and depinning of the entire contact line leading to the drop's translational motion. We find a region of parameters where the classical Macdougall-Ockrent-Frenkel approach fails to estimate the critical volume of the statically pinned inclined drop. © 2007 The American Physical Society.

Date Published

Journal

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volume

75

Issue

6

URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-34547272600&doi=10.1103%2fPhysRevE.75.066308&partnerID=40&md5=ed199a93207de236cc5e261bafa96ba1

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevE.75.066308

Group (Lab)

Robert Thorne Group

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