Radial capillary transport from an infinite reservoir

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 109-132

  Conrath, Michael ^a   Fries, Nicolas ^a   Zhang, Ming ^a   Dreyer, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Imbibition; Lucas Washburn; Porous medium; Radial capillary transport; Wicking

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CAPILLARY TRANSPORT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FILTER PAPERS; IMAGE SERIES; INFINITE RESERVOIRS; LAMBERT W FUNCTION; LIQUID TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; RADIAL TRANSPORT; RAIN DROPS; REFERENCE DATA; THEORETICAL MODELS; WETTED AREA; WICKING;

CAMERAS; LIQUIDS; POROUS MATERIALS; WINE;

TEXTILE PROCESSING;

CAPILLARITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; IMBIBITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; RADIAL FLOW; RESERVOIR;

EID: 77955056463     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-009-9488-9     Document Type: Article

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