A variational model of disjoining pressure: Liquid film on a nonplanar surface

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 485-505

  Silin, Dmitriy ^a   Virnovsky, George ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure; Disjoining pressure; Interfacial tension; Wettability

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY PRESSURES; CLASSICAL CALCULUS; DISJOINING PRESSURE ISOTHERMS; DISJOINING PRESSURES; FEASIBLE SOLUTION; FILM RUPTURE; HELMHOLTZ FREE ENERGY; INTERFACIAL TENSIONS; NON-PLANAR SURFACES; PERIODIC SOLUTION; PHASE PORTRAIT; PORE SPACE; SECOND-ORDER PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; SOLID SURFACE; SPHERICAL GRAINS; THEORETICAL STUDY; THIN LIQUID FILM; VARIATIONAL METHODS; VARIATIONAL MODELS; WALL SURFACES; WETTING FILMS; YOUNG LAPLACE EQUATION;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FREE ENERGY; LAPLACE EQUATION; LIQUID FILMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; WETTING;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PORE SPACE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; WETTABILITY;

EID: 77951497663     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-009-9424-z     Document Type: Article

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