• Media type: Text; Report; E-Book
  • Title: Contact-line instability of dewetting thin films
  • Contributor: Münch, Andreas [Author]; Wagner, Barbara [Author]
  • Published: Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics publication server, 2004
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.924
  • Keywords: 76A20 ; 76D27 ; article ; 97.80.Gm ; Lubrication approximation -- stability -- slippage ; 97.30.Qt ; 97.10.Gz
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  • Description: We investigate the linear stability of dewetting thin polymer films on hydrophobised substrates driven by Van-der-Waals forces, using a lubrication model. We focus on the role of slippage in the emerging instability at the three-phase contact-line and compare our results to the corresponding no-slip case. Our analysis shows that generically, small perturbations of the receding front are amplified, but in the slippage case by orders of magnitude larger than in the no-slip case. Moreover, while the perturbations become symmetrical in the no-slip case, they are asymmetrical in the slippage case. We furthermore extend our lubrication model to include effects of nonlinear curvature.