A study of the influence of initial liquid volume on the capillary flow in an interior corner under microgravity

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 53, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 1801-1807

  Wang, Cai Xia ^a   Xu, Sheng Hua ^a   Sun, Zhi Wei ^a   Hu, Wen Rui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

Capillary flow; Concus Finn condition; Critical contact angle

Indexed keywords

CONCUS-FINN CONDITION; DROP TOWERS; INTERIOR CORNER; LIQUID VOLUME; MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS; TIP VELOCITY;

CAPILLARITY; CONTACT ANGLE; LIQUIDS; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING;

CAPILLARY FLOW;

EID: 76749116625     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.01.009     Document Type: Article

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