Soft wetting: Models based on energy dissipation or on force balance are equivalent [Physical Sciences]

In Newtonian mechanics, an overdamped system at steady state is governed by a local balance of mechanical stress but also obeys a global balance between injected and dissipated energy. In the classical literature of purely viscous drop spreading, apparent differences in "dissipation" and "force" approaches have led to unnecessary debates,...

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