It was noted that, close to a bulk phase transition, a moving planar defect could be covered by a layer of the ordered phase. This happened above the transition point in some finite region of the temperature-velocity diagram. In the case of a first-order transition, this region was furnished with a net of non-equilibrium phase-transition lines. The topology of this net resembled that of the phase diagram of a first-order wetting transition in thermal equilibrium. In particular, a kinetic complete-wetting line appeared; where a significant change in the drag coefficient of the defect was predicted.

Kinetic Wetting of a Moving Planar Defect by a New Phase. A.L.Korzhenevskii, R.Bausch, R.Schmitz: Physical Review Letters, 2003, 91[23], 236101 (3pp)