Kinetic roughening and pinning of two coupled interfaces in disordered media.
We studied the kinetic roughening dynamic of two coupled interfaces formed in paper wetting experiments at low evaporation rate. We observed three different regimes of impregnation in which kinetic roughening dynamics of coupled precursor and main fronts belong to different universality classes; nevertheless both interfaces are pinned in the same configuration. Reported experimental observations provide a novel insight into the nature of kinetic roughening phenomena occurring in the vast variety of systems far from equilibrium.
Balankin
Alexander S
AS
Grupo Mecánica Fractal, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México DF, 07738 México.
Paredes
Rafael García
RG
Susarrey
Orlando
O
Morales
Daniel
D
Vacio
Fernando Castrejon
FC