Why is surface tension a force parallel to the interface

By A. Marchand, J. Weijs, J. Snoeijer, Bruno Andreotti. 2011

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A paperclip can float on water. Drops of mercury do not spread on a surface. These capillary phenomena are macroscopic manifestations of molecular interactions and can be explained in terms of surface tension. We address several conceptual questions that are often encountered when teaching capillarity and provide a perspective that reconciles the macroscopic viewpoints from thermodynamics and fluid mechanics and the microscopic perspective from statistical physics

Subfields: Computational Mechanics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/1c120720bcb241be9fa8b5b16a050594641def3e

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In Computational Mechanics

1. J. Snoeijer
2. Bruno Andreotti

Citations in the corpus

• Statics and Dynamics of Soft Wetting (2020, background): “Although different numerical and theoretical works have been devoted to this question (Weijs et al. 2013, Liang et al. 2018b, Masurel et al. 2018), it is important in this review to focus on experimental results.”