Capillarity and wetting phenomena
Subtitle: drops, bubbles, pearls, waves
By: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Franco̧ise Brochard-Wyart, David Quéré ; translated by Axel Reisinger.
Contributors: Brochard-Wyart, Françoise.; Quéré, David.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Capillarity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Capillarity: deformable interfaces; title: 2. Capillarity and gravity; title: 3. Hysteresis and elasticity of triple lines; title: 4. Wetting and long-range forces; title: 5. Hydrodynamics of interfaces; title: 6. Dynamics of the triple line; title: 7. Dewetting; title: 8. Surfactants; title: 9. Special interfaces; title: 10. Transport phenomena.