A universal law for capillary rise in corners

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 666, Issue , 2011, Pages 146-154

  Ponomarenko, Alexandre ^a,b   Quéré, David ^a,b   Clanet, Christophe ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

capillary flows; porous media

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; LIQUIDS; POROUS MATERIALS; SURFACE TENSION;

CAPILLARY LENGTH; CAPILLARY RISE; DIFFERENT GEOMETRY; LIQUID DENSITY; WETTING LIQUIDS;

DENSITY OF LIQUIDS;

CAPILLARITY; FLUID FLOW; GEOMETRY; LIQUID; POROUS MEDIUM; VISCOSITY;

EID: 79951623558     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010005276     Document Type: Article

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