Citation

Le Doussal P, Wiese KJ. Phys. Rev. E Stat. Nonlin. Soft Matter Phys. 2010; 82(1 Pt 1): 011108.

Affiliation

CNRS-Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, 73231 Paris Cedex 05, France.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, American Physical Society, Publisher American Institute of Physics)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

20866566

Abstract

Motivated by recent experiments, we extend the Joanny-deGennes calculation of the elasticity of a contact line to an arbitrary contact angle and an arbitrary plate inclination in presence of gravity. This requires a diagonalization of the elastic modes around the nonlinear equilibrium profile, which is carried out exactly. We then make detailed predictions for the avalanche-size distribution at quasistatic depinning: we study how the universal (i.e., short-scale independent) rescaled size distribution and the ratio of moments of local to global avalanches depend on the precise form of the elastic kernel.

Language: en