Influence of contact angle and tube size on capillary-driven flow under microgravity

AIAA Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2642-2648

  Wang, Caixia ^a   Xu, Shenghua ^a   Sun, Zhiwei ^a,b   Hu, Wenrui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDRICAL TUBES; DROP TOWERS; MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; TUBE SIZE;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CONTACT ANGLE; MICROGRAVITY; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

EID: 72149113057     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.41899     Document Type: Article

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