@techreport{borgs1999an,
author = {Borgs, Christian and Coninck, J. De and Kotecky, R.},
title = {An Equilibrium Lattice Model of Wetting on Rough Substrates},
year = {1999},
month = {February},
abstract = {We consider a semi-infinite 3-dimensional Ising system with a rough wall to describe the effect of the roughness r of the substrate on wetting. We show that the difference of wall free energies Δτ(r)=τAW(r)−τBW(r) of the two phases behaves like Δτ(r)∼rΔτ(1), where r=1 characterizes a purely flat surface, confirming at low enough temperature and small roughness the validity of Wenzel's law, cos θ(r)≈r cos θ(1), which relates the contact angle θ of a sessile droplet to the roughness of the substrate.},
publisher = {Kluwer Academic},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/an-equilibrium-lattice-model-of-wetting-on-rough-substrates/},
pages = {19},
number = {MSR-TR-98-18},
}