Wetting phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and technology. A solid substrate exposed to
the environment is almost invariably covered by a layer of fluid material. In this review, the …

The spontaneous spreading of non-volatile liquid droplets on solid substrates poses a
classic problem in the context of wetting phenomena. It is well known that the spreading of a …

We investigate the conditions under which periodically driven quantum systems subject to
dissipation exhibit a stable subharmonic response. Noting that coupling to a bath introduces …

Previous treatments of three-dimensional (3D) short-ranged wetting transitions have missed
an entropic or low-temperature Casimir contribution to the binding potential describing the …

Investigating the structure of fluid interfaces at high temperatures is a particularly delicate
task that requires effective ways of discriminating liquid from vapour and identifying the …

In this paper we review simulation and experimental studies of thermal capillary wave
fluctuations as an ideal means for probing the underlying disjoining pressure and surface …

The contact angle of a liquid droplet on a surface under partial wetting conditions differs for a
nanoscopically rough or periodically corrugated surface from its value for a perfectly flat …

Surfaces between 3D solids and fluids exhibit a wide variety of phenomena both at
equilibrium, such as roughening transitions, interfacial fluctuations and wetting, and also out …

The wetting transition of the Blume-Capel model is studied by a finite-size scaling analysis of
L× M lattices where competing boundary fields±H 1 act on the first or last row of the L rows in …

The formation of iterated structures, such as satellite and subsatellite drops, filaments, and
bubbles, is a common feature in interfacial hydrodynamics. Here we undertake a …