A major obstacle for introducing high volume forming of stainless steel sheet is the tendency of lubricant film breakdown resulting in pick-up of workpiece material on the tool surface and subsequent scoring of the workpiece surface (galling). Conventional technology to delay galling is the use...

On the basis of a microscopic Hamiltonian on a semi-infinite cubic lattice, we derive the excess surface free energy for a confined ternary mixture of oil, water and amphiphile. Using the standard mean-field approximation for a spin-1 model we calculate the surface parameters in terms of the...

We carefully derive an effective interface model for fluctuating membranes from an underlying Ginzburg–Landau theory. Unlike classical phenomenological approaches our model contains position-dependent rigidity and stiffness coefficients and furthermore allows the inclusion of external surfaces...

The prediction of van Leeuwen and Hauge of a non-universal exponent associated with the critical wetting transition in type-I superconductors is verified by numerical solution of the Ginzburg–Landau equations. Using their interface potential we also compare analytic and numerical results for...