Rising damp: Capillary rise dynamics in walls

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 463, Issue 2084, 2007, Pages 1871-1884

  Hall, Christopher ^a   Hoff, William D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Building stone; Capillary rise; Clay brick; Evaporation; Sorptivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 36348963182     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2007.1855     Document Type: Article

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