Wetting considerations in capillary rise and imbibition in closed square tubes and open rectangular cross-section channels

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 309-326

  Ouali, F Fouzia ^a   McHale, Glen ^b   Javed, Haadi ^a   Trabi, Christophe ^b   Shirtcliffe, Neil J ^c   Newton, Michael I ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c RHINE WAAL UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capillary rise; Lucas Washburn; Microfluidic channel

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION DUE TO GRAVITY; CAPILLARY IMBIBITION; CAPILLARY RISE; EXACT NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; LUCAS-WASHBURN; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; RECTANGULAR CROSS-SECTION CHANNELS; RECTANGULAR CROSS-SECTIONS;

ASPECT RATIO; CHANNEL FLOW; EXPERIMENTS; FLUIDIC DEVICES; FRICTION; MICROCHANNELS; SILICONES; TUBES (COMPONENTS); WETTING;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84883270985     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-013-1145-5     Document Type: Article

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