Experimental and theoretical study of the spread of fluid from a point source on an inclined incontinence bed-pad

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine

Volumn 217, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 263-271

  Eames, I ^a   Small, I ^a   Frampton, A ^a   Cottenden, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Incontinence; Infiltration; Porous media; Richards' equation

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; POLYESTERS; RAYON; UROLOGY; ADVECTION; INFILTRATION; POROUS MATERIALS;

NONLINEAR ADVECTION DIFFUSION EQUATION; RICHARDS EQUATION; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

POROUS MATERIALS; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; CHARACTERISTIC VALUE; INCONTINENCE; INFILTRATION PROCESS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; RICHARDS 'EQUATION; SCALING ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

WATER;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAPER; EVALUATION; FLOW KINETICS; GRAVITY; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; POROSITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEXTILE; THEORETICAL MODEL; URINE INCONTINENCE; VALIDATION STUDY; VISCOSITY;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; INCONTINENCE PADS; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POROSITY; RHEOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEXTILES; URINARY INCONTINENCE; VISCOSITY; WATER;

EID: 0042366182     PISSN: 09544119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/095441103322060712     Document Type: Article

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