%0 Journal Article %J Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 202 (2011) 295-348 %D 2011 %T Quasistatic evolution of sessile drops and contact angle hysteresis %A Giovanni Alberti %A Antonio DeSimone %X We consider the classical model of capillarity coupled with a rate-independent dissipation mechanism due to frictional forces acting on the contact line, and prove the existence of quasistatic evolutions with prescribed initial configuration. We also discuss in detail some explicit solutions to show that the model does account for contact angle hysteresis, and to compare its predictions with experimental observations. %B Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 202 (2011) 295-348 %I Springer %G en %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4912 %1 4693 %2 Mathematics %3 Functional Analysis and Applications %4 -1 %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2011-10-25T09:46:50Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\ngads2.pdf: 620848 bytes, checksum: f5fef67c4e88cd294016f704c59394bd (MD5) %R 10.1007/s00205-011-0427-x