Capillary rise in nesting cylinders

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1545-1551

  Brady, Victor ^a   Concus, Paul ^b   Finn, Robert ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; FLUID DYNAMICS;

CAPILLARY RISE;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES);

CAPILLARY ACTION;

EID: 0038168820     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1566449     Document Type: Article

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