Wetting Transitions in a Cylindrical Pore

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Liu, Andrea J
Herbolzheimer, Eric
Safran, S. A
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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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1990-10-08
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Physical Review Letter
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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.
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