Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena

This latest book from renowned teacher and Nobel Laureate Pierre-Gilles de Gennes offers a compendium of principles designed to elucidate a wide range of phenom... » 

This latest book from renowned teacher and Nobel Laureate Pierre-Gilles de Gennes offers a compendium of principles designed to elucidate a wide range of phenomena. The rigor of numerical methods gives way to a qualitative rigor that creates a deep intuitive understanding of the mechanisms involved. «