Capillary driven flow along interior corners formed by planar walls of varying wettability

Microgravity Science and Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 45-55

  Weislogel, M M ^a   Nardin, C L ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT EXPERIMENTS; CAPILLARY DRIVEN FLOW; INTERIOR CORNERS;

AIR; BENCHMARKING; GEOMETRY; WETTING;

CAPILLARITY;

EID: 29844458179     PISSN: 09380108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02872087     Document Type: Article

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