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A model of a binary mixture, showing a wetting transition, is examined. No prewetting phenomena are found. The scaling functions are obtained for the film thickness and for the correlation lengths.
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Abraham, D.B., Smith, E.R. An exactly solved model with a wetting transition. J Stat Phys 43, 621–643 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01020656
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