Your wetting day

• Laurent Courbin ^[1] ; Howard A. Stone ^[1]
  1. [1] Harvard University

     Harvard University

     City of Cambridge, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Physics today, ISSN 0031-9228, Vol. 60, Nº. 2, 2007, pág. 84
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Why does water fall off a duck’s back but form bridges between grains of sand at the beach?The answer lies in the physics of surface wetting.