Wetting phenomena with long-range forces
- 1 September 1984
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 81 (5), 2463-2467
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.447904
Abstract
We study the effect of long-range, power-law forces on a critical continuous wetting transition within classical mean-field theory. Repulsive forces destroy the transition; attractive, long-range forces drive the transition first order and we locate the resulting prewetting line and associated prewetting critical point.Keywords
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