Concept

Capillary action

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Covers capillarity, capillary rise, wetting, non-wetting, and surface forces.

Covers the stability of values in loose soil excavations and the importance of capillary cohesion.

Discusses capillary rise, water tension, and hydraulic head determination using piezometers.

Covers forced flow along a capillary and the Lucas Washburn equation.

Covers the fundamentals of gas-liquid interfaces, including surface tension and capillary action.

Explores surface tension's microscopic interpretation and its impact on creating interfaces between immiscible fluids.

Explores wettability, force balance, wetting behavior, and capillary length in liquids.

Covers the effects of adding an ice cube to water and the variation of surface tension.

Explores surface tension in soap bubbles, covering Laplace's law, wetting phenomena, capillary rise, and overpressure.

Explores capillarity, wetting, and surface tension, discussing contact angles, hysteresis, and wetting states.

Provides a comprehensive review of Two-Phase Flows and Heat Transfer topics, including pool boiling, capillarity, wetting, and flow regimes.

Covers the fundamentals of surface tension, adhesion forces, and laser manufacturing technologies.

Explores porosity in rocks, water retention, and soil-water interactions.

Explores the thermodynamics of interfaces, emphasizing the concept of work of addition and its applications in material science.

Explores electrostatic and van der Waals forces, adhesion in geckos, and methods to prevent stiction in microsystems.

Explores capillarity, wetting, nucleation, boiling, and condensation in liquid-vapor phase change applications.

Explores the mechanics of wrinkled structures, covering compression, swelling, film growth, wetting angle tuning, and biofilm formation.

Explores the chemical formulas and properties of clay minerals, the shaping techniques of clay, and the manufacturing process of glasses.

Explores water surface tension, capillary forces, and contact angles in detail.

Offers a refresher on cementitious materials microstructure, covering pore sizes, interlayer water, capillary pores, and the microstructure model.