https://www.shreyasmandre.com/tags/wetting/ Recent content in Wetting on Shreyas Mandre Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.shreyasmandre.com/publications/bird2008/ Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.shreyasmandre.com/publications/bird2008/ When a liquid drop contacts a wettable surface, the liquid spreads over the solid to minimize the total surface energy. The first moments of spreading tend to be rapid. For example, a millimeter-sized water droplet will wet an area having the same diameter as the drop within a millisecond. For perfectly wetting systems, this spreading is inertially dominated. Here we identify that even in the presence of a contact line, the initial wetting is dominated by inertia rather than viscosity.