Anomalous front broadening during spontaneous imbibition in a matrix with elongated pores

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 10245-10250

  Gruener, Simon ^a   Sadjadi, Zeinab ^a   Hermes, Helen E ^b   Kityk, Andriy V ^c   Knorr, Klaus ^a   Egelhaaf, Stefan U ^b   Rieger, Heiko ^a   Huber, Patrick ^a,d,e  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c CZESTOCHOWA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^e HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer simulations; Interface roughening; Liquid imbibition; Neutron radiography; Porous media

Indexed keywords

GLASS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIQUID; LIQUID IMBITION; NANOPORE; NEUTRON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURFACE TENSION; VAPOR;

EID: 84862998453     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1119352109     Document Type: Article

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