Capillary rise in porous, fibrous media during liquid immersion

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 55, Issue 21-22, 2012, Pages 6222-6230

  Mullins, Benjamin J ^a,b,c   Braddock, Roger D ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capillary rise; Filter; Liquid immersion; Porous media; Washburn equation

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY RISE; FIBROUS MEDIA; FILTER; GLASS TUBES; LIQUID IMMERSION; VERTICAL CAPILLARIES; WASHBURN EQUATION;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EXPERIMENTS; LIQUIDS; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 84864286856     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2012.06.046     Document Type: Article

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