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Distinctive features of countercurrent capillary imbibition

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Capillary imbibition of a wetting fluid in a porous medium is studied. A method of constructing the exact solution of the corresponding problem is developed. An iteration procedure is developed for the case of countercurrent capillary imbibition. The salient features of the flow generated by capillary forces are revealed on the basis of numerical results.

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  1. Lavrent’ev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Lavrent’eva 15, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    Yu. I. Kapranov

  2. Novosibirsk State University, ul. Pirogova 2, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    Yu. I. Kapranov

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Original Russian Text © Yu.I. Kapranov, 2016, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, 2016, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 115–128.

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Kapranov, Y.I. Distinctive features of countercurrent capillary imbibition. Fluid Dyn 51, 240–252 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0015462816020113

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