Article ; Online: Thermal capillary waves on bounded nanoscale thin films.
2023 Volume 107, Issue 1-2, Page(s) 15105
Abstract: The effect of confining walls on the fluctuation of a nanoscale thin film's free surface is studied using stochastic thin-film equations (STFEs). Two canonical boundary conditions are employed to reveal the influence of the confinement: (1) an imposed ... ...
| Abstract | The effect of confining walls on the fluctuation of a nanoscale thin film's free surface is studied using stochastic thin-film equations (STFEs). Two canonical boundary conditions are employed to reveal the influence of the confinement: (1) an imposed contact angle and (2) a pinned contact line. A linear stability analysis provides the wave eigenmodes, after which thermal-capillary-wave theory predicts the wave fluctuation amplitudes. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are performed to test the predictions, and a Langevin diffusion model is proposed to capture oscillations of the contact lines observed in MD simulations. Good agreement between the theoretical predictions and the MD simulation results is recovered, and it is discovered that confinement can influence the entire film. Notably, a constraint on the length scale of wave modes is found to affect fluctuation amplitudes from our theoretical model, especially for 3D films. This opens up challenges and future lines of inquiry. |
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| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2023-02-16 |
| Publishing country | United States |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ZDB-ID | 2844562-4 |
| ISSN | 2470-0053 ; 2470-0045 |
| ISSN (online) | 2470-0053 |
| ISSN | 2470-0045 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevE.107.015105 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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