Department of Physics Papers
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
10-8-1990
Publication Source
Physical Review Letter
Volume
65
Issue
15
Start Page
1897
Last Page
1900
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.1897
Abstract
The wetting behavior of two-phase systems confined inside cylindrical pores is studied theoretically. The confined geometry gives rise to wetting configurations, or microstructures, which have no analog in the well-studied planar case. Many features observed in experiments on binary liquid mixtures in porous media, previously interpreted in terms of random fields, are shown to be consistent with wetting in a confined geometry with no randomness.
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© 1990 American Physical Society. You van view the original article at: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.1897
Recommended Citation
Liu, A. J., Durian, D. J., Herbolzheimer, E., & Safran, S. A. (1990). Wetting Transitions in a Cylindrical Pore. Physical Review Letter, 65 (15), 1897-1900. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.1897
Date Posted: 13 October 2017
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Comments
At the time of publication, author Douglas J. Durian was affiliated with Exxon Research and Engineering Company. Currently, he is a faculty member at the Physics Department at the University of Pennsylvania.