Spreading fronts of wetting liquid droplets: microscopic simulations and universal fluctuations
J. M. Marcos,
P. Rodríguez-López,
J. J. Melendez
et al.
Abstract:We have used kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) simulations of a lattice gas to study front fluctuations in the spreading of a non-volatile liquid droplet onto a solid substrate. Our results are consistent with a diffusive growth law for the radius of the precursor layer, R ∼ t δ , with δ ≈ 1/2 in all the conditions considered for temperature and substrate wettability, in good agreement with previous studies. The fluctuations of the front exhibit kinetic roughening properties with exponent values which depend on temper… Show more
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