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On the nonuniformity of a capillary flow

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It is established that the capillary rise of a liquid has an oscillatory character, in contrast to the commonly accepted opinion that a vertical capillary is filled at a monotonically varying velocity. The value of the tangential shear stress arising in an ascending liquid is evaluated for ethyl alcohol and distilled water.

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Original Russian Text © V.I. Volkov, D.Yu. Kozlov, E.R. Kirkolup, 2007, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2007, Vol. 33, No. 21, pp. 37–41.

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Volkov, V.I., Kozlov, D.Y. & Kirkolup, E.R. On the nonuniformity of a capillary flow. Tech. Phys. Lett. 33, 915–916 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785007110065

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