Wetting and wicking in fibrous materials

Textile Progress

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-105

  Patnaik, A ^a   Rengasamy, R S ^a   Kothari, V K ^a   Ghosh, A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Fibrous materials; Wetting; Wicking

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; YARN;

FIBROUS MATERIALS;

TEXTILES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEXTILE FIBERS; TEXTILES; WETTING; WICKING; YARN;

WETTING; WICKING;

EID: 31944450463     PISSN: 00405167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1533/jotp.2006.38.1.1     Document Type: Article

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