title: Kinetic roughening of a soft dewetting line under quenched disorder: A numerical study.
abstract: An elegant simulation method, suitable for investigating the dewetting dynamics of thin and viscous liquid layers, is discussed. The efficiency of the method is exemplified by studying a two-parameter depinninglike model defined on inhomogeneous solid surfaces. The morphology and the statistical properties of the contact line are mapped in the relevant parameter space, and as a result critical behavior in the vicinity of the depinning transition is revealed. The model allows for the tearing of the layer, which leads to a new propagation regime resulting in nontrivial collective behavior. The large deformations observed for the interface are a result of the interplay between the substrate inhomogeneities and the capillary forces.
authors.affiliation: Babeş-Bolyai University, Department of Physics, 1 str. Mihail Kogălniceanu, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania and Edutus College, Stúdium tér 1, 2800 Tatabánya, Hungary and Laboratoire PMMH, UMR7636 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/ESPCI/Université Paris 6 UPMC, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France.
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authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tyukodi
authors.affiliation: French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, Route Nationale, 91400 Gif-sur-Yvette, France and Grenoble Institute of Technology, SIMAP, 101 rue de la Physique, 38402 Saint Martin d'Heres, France.
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authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bréchet
authors.affiliation: Babeş-Bolyai University, Department of Physics, 1 str. Mihail Kogălniceanu, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania and Edutus College, Stúdium tér 1, 2800 Tatabánya, Hungary.
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authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Néda