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Capillary action (sometimes
called capillarity,
capillary motion,
capillary rise,
capillary effect, or wicking) is the
process of a
liquid flowing in...
- Elasto-
capillarity is the
ability of
capillary force to
deform an
elastic material. From the
viewpoint of mechanics,
elastocapillarity phenomena essentially...
- liquids.
Surface tension is an
important factor in the
phenomenon of
capillarity.
Surface tension has the
dimension of
force per unit length, or of energy...
- Capillaritätserscheinungen" ("Conclusions
drawn from the
phenomena of
capillarity"), in
which he
proposed a
model of
intermolecular attraction that he...
- fluid. Archimedes'
principle does not
consider the
surface tension (
capillarity)
acting on the body, but this
additional force modifies only the amount...
- Soil
mechanics is a
branch of soil
physics and
applied mechanics that
describes the
behavior of soils. It
differs from
fluid mechanics and
solid mechanics...
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Subirrigation designs (e.g.,
wicking beds, sub-irrigated planters) rely on
capillarity to
supply water to
plant roots.
Capillary action can
result in an evaporative...
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retirement in 1993. His
works covered a wide
range of subjects,
including on
capillarity (the
ability of a
liquid to flow in
narrow spaces without the ****istance...
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measure of the
capacity of the
medium to
absorb or
desorb liquid by
capillarity.
According to C Hall and W D Hoff, the
sorptivity expresses the tendency...
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applications of
Mathieu functions to electrostatics.
Volume 2
deals with
capillarity.
Volumes 3 and 4 deal with
electrostatics and magnetostatics. Volume...
