Imbibition in geometries with axial variations

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 615, Issue , 2008, Pages 335-344

  Reyssat, Mathilde ^a   Courbin, Laurent ^a   Reyssat, Etienne ^a   Stone, Howard A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; FLUID MECHANICS;

AXIAL VARIATIONS; FLOW DIRECTION; MICROSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POWER-LAW; SHAPE VARIATIONS; SQUARE ROOTS; SURFACE WETTING; THEORETICAL LIMITS;

POROUS MATERIALS;

CHANNEL FLOW; DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOMETRY; POROUS MEDIUM; THEORETICAL STUDY; WETTING;

EID: 56149111304     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112008003996     Document Type: Article

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