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| Format: | Preprint |
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2025
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12385 |
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- We develop a unified theoretical framework for thin-film hydrodynamics on inclined solid substrates, integrating capillarity, intermolecular forces, gravitational symmetry breaking, confined transport and stochastic wetting into a single formulation. Starting from lubrication theory with capillary curvature and disjoining-pressure interactions, we derive a general thin-film equation that incorporates inclination-driven advection, nanoscale stabilization and humidity-controlled source-sink fluxes. A dimensionless analysis shows that, within the long-wave lubrication approximation, inclination induces a leading-order coupling of the Bond, Peclet and Damkohler numbers. This coupling defines a characteristic trajectory in the parameter space (Da, Pe, Bo), determined by the structure of the lubrication flux. Coupling this deterministic framework to a minimal stochastic formulation captures the intermittent wet-dry dynamics characteristic of ultrathin films under environmental forcing. The framework provides a general surface-physics description of confined films under geometric asymmetry, applicable across wetting, interfacial drainage, reactive confinement and soft-matter systems.