Roughly at the time (1987) when the manuscript for the first three chapters of the present
book was completed, several breakthroughs occurred. They had a profound influence on the …

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 …

We report a theoretical and simulation study of the drying and wetting phase transitions of a
truncated Lennard-Jones fluid at a flat structureless wall. Binding potential calculations …

We report a detailed simulation and classical density functional theory study of the drying
transition in a realistic model fluid at a smooth substrate. This transition (in which the contact …

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 …

We show that to account for the full spectrum of surface fluctuations from low scattering
vector qd⪡ 1 (classical capillary wave theory) to high qd≳ 1 (bulklike fluctuations), one must …

We study the density-density correlation function G (r, r') in the interfacial region of a fluid (or
Ising-like magnet) with short-ranged interactions using square gradient density functional …

We consider a liquid trapped in a narrow horizontal capillary, under the influence of gravity.
As the slit is widened, the meniscus, separating the capillary liquid from gas, deforms and …

We present results of an extensive molecular dynamics simulation of the structure and
fluctuations<? format?> of a liquid-gas interface, close to its triple point, in a system with …

For simple fluids adsorbed at a planar solid substrate (modeled as an inert wall) it is known
that critical-point wetting, that is, the vanishing of the contact angle θ at a temperature T w …