Differential spontaneous capillary flow through heterogeneous porous media

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 54, Issue 13-14, 2011, Pages 3096-3099

  Bal, Kausik ^a   Fan, Jintu ^a   Sarkar, M K ^a   Ye, Lin ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fractal; Heterogeneous porous media; Spontaneous absorption; Transplaner liquid flow

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY PRESSURES; FLOW OF LIQUIDS; FRACTAL THEORY; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; HYDRAULIC RESISTANCES; LAYER CONFIGURATION; LIQUID FLOW; LIQUID TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; POROSITY AND PORE SIZE; POROUS LAYERS; SPONTANEOUS ABSORPTION; TRANSPLANER LIQUID FLOW;

ABSORPTION; CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; FRACTAL DIMENSION; INITIATORS (CHEMICAL); PORE SIZE; POROUS MATERIALS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 79955477186     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2011.02.048     Document Type: Article

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