Critical wetting phenomena : observation of hydrodynamic instabilities
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2014 In critical wetting phenomena, the situation of a heavier liquid residing on top of lighter liquid is observed. The consequences of the Rayleigh-Taylor mode of instability in the semicritical wetting layer in a binary liquid mixture are investigated. We also report experimental observations in support of our theory, in the critical binary liquid mixture cyclohexane + acetonitrile. J. Physique 46 (1985) 1533-1541 SEPTEMBRE 1985, Classification Physics Abstracts 68.1OC 64.70 47.20
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