On spread extent of sessile droplet into porous medium: Numerical solution and comparisons with experiments

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-12

  Markicevic, B ^a   D'Onofrio, T G ^b   Navaz, H K ^a  

^a KETTERING UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EDGEWOOD CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; DROPS; LIQUIDS; WETTING;

CAPILLARY NETWORK; FREE INTERFACE; LARGE VOLUMES; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; POROUS MEDIUM; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; SESSILE DROPLET; WETTING LIQUIDS;

POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 77951018947     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.862466     Document Type: Article

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