%0 Conference Paper %B IUTAM Symposium on Variational Concepts with Applications to the Mechanics of Materials %D 2010 %T A Phase Field Approach to Wetting and Contact Angle Hysteresis Phenomena %A Antonio DeSimone %A Livio Fedeli %A Turco, Alessandro %E Hackl, Klaus %X

We discuss a phase field model for the numerical simulation of contact angle hysteresis phenomena in wetting. The performance of the model is assessed by comparing its predictions with experimental data on the critical size of drops that can stick on a vertical glass plate.

%B IUTAM Symposium on Variational Concepts with Applications to the Mechanics of Materials %I Springer Netherlands %C Dordrecht %P 51–63 %@ 978-90-481-9195-6 %G eng