Rafaı¨, Salima; Bonn, Daniel - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 358 (2005) 1, pp. 58-67
The spreading of Newtonian fluids onto smooth solid substrates is well known; the speed of the contact line is given by a competition between capillary driving forces and viscous dissipation, yielding Tanner's law R∝t1/10. Here, we study the spreading of droplets of complex fluids having...
