RHEOLOGICAL ELEMENTS IN THE STATICS AND DYNAMICS OF WETTING

B. D. Summ

UDC 532.64:541.1

Consideration has been given to the possibility of applying 
rheological methods to description of certain problems of the theory 
of wetting of solid bodies - hysteresis of boundary angles in 
inflow and outflow, influence of the deformations of a solid surface 
in contact with a wetting liquid - and the dynamic problems related 
to spontaneous spreading of a liquid on the substrate. It has been 
shown that the rheological methods are quite promising for solving 
the enumerated problems.

M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; 
email: summ@colloid.chem.msu.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 76, No. 3, pp. 156-158, May-June, 2003. Original 
article submitted November 12, 2002.