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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
Volume 26, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4886128
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- ERC [247031]
- Imperial College through a DTG International Studentship
- European Research Council (ERC) [247031] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [1369606] Funding Source: researchfish
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We examine the nanoscale behavior of an equilibrium three-phase contact line in the presence of long-ranged intermolecular forces by employing a statistical mechanics of fluids approach, namely, density functional theory (DFT) together with fundamental measure theory (FMT). This enables us to evaluate the predictive quality of effective Hamiltonian models in the vicinity of the contact line. In particular, we compare the results for mean field effective Hamiltonians with disjoining pressures defined through (i) the adsorption isotherm for a planar liquid film, and (ii) the normal force balance at the contact line. We find that the height profile obtained using (i) shows good agreement with the adsorption film thickness of the DFT-FMT equilibrium density profile in terms of maximal curvature and the behavior at large film heights. In contrast, we observe that while the height profile obtained by using (ii) satisfies basic sum rules, it shows little agreement with the adsorption film thickness of the DFT results. The results are verified for contact angles of 20 degrees, 40 degrees, and 60 degrees. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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