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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5 Pt 1
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-1-31
pubmed:abstractText
We investigate propagating fronts in disordered media that belong to the universality class of wetting contact lines and planar tensile crack fronts. We derive from first principles their nonlinear equations of motion, using the generalized Griffith criterion for crack fronts and three standard mobility laws for contact lines. Then we study their roughness using the self-consistent expansion. When neglecting the irreversibility of fracture and wetting processes, we find a possible dynamic rough phase with a roughness exponent of zeta=1/2 and a dynamic exponent of z=2. When including the irreversibility, we conclude that the front propagation can become history dependent, and thus we consider the value zeta=1/2 as a lower bound for the roughness exponent. Interestingly, for propagating contact line in wetting, where irreversibility is weaker than in fracture, the experimental results are close to 0.5, while for fracture the reported values of 0.55-0.65 are higher.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1539-3755
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
76
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
051601
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Roughness of moving elastic lines: crack and wetting fronts.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS UMR 8550, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France. eytan.katzav@lps.ens.fr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article