Liquid correlation across the walls in a slit pore: effect on the wetting and drying transition.
The liquid structure next to the walls of a slit pore, immersed in a model simple liquid, is studied through a liquid theory and grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations. A liquid correlation across slit walls, of finite width, is found. This correlation modifies the structure and capillary partial wetting and drying transitions of the nonhomogeneous fluid, when close to its liquid-vapor coexistence curve.
Grupo de Química Teórica, Departamento de Química, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela.
Wilmer
W
Olivares
Léo
L
Degrève
Juan C
JC
Villegas
Marcelo
M
Lozada-Cassou