Simplified thermodynamic model for equilibrium capillary pressure in a fractal porous medium

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Deinert, M R ^a,b   Parlange, J Y ^a,b   Cady, K B ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; FLUID INTERFACIAL AREA; INTERFACIAL SURFACE TENSIONS;

CAPILLARITY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SURFACE TENSION;

THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 28844480100     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.041203     Document Type: Article

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