Capillary rise in nesting cylinders

We investigate computationally recent results concerning the question of whether liquid necessarily rises higher in a capillary tube of smaller section, when tubes are placed vertically in an infinite reservoir. The numerical results corroborate for a particular example a striking discontinuous beha...

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Published in:Physics of fluids (1994) 2003-06, Vol.15 (6), p.1545-1551
Main Authors: Brady, Victor, Concus, Paul, Finn, Robert
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:We investigate computationally recent results concerning the question of whether liquid necessarily rises higher in a capillary tube of smaller section, when tubes are placed vertically in an infinite reservoir. The numerical results corroborate for a particular example a striking discontinuous behavior that was predicted mathematically.
ISSN:1070-6631
1089-7666
DOI:10.1063/1.1566449