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Penetration and Displacement in Capillary Systems

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Modern Approaches to Wettability

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Spontaneous capillary penetration of a liquid into pore spaces filled with a fluid is a flow driven by interfacial pressure differences. The magnitude of the pressure difference across each liquid—fluid interface (meniscus) depends on the local curvature, which is determined by the local wetting properties and pore geometry. The observation that interfacial pressure differences are appreciable only in small pores led to the term capillary, from the Latin capillus for hair. The recorded scientific history of capillary penetration seems to have started with Leonardo da Vinci,(1) who apparently was the first scientist to note capillary rise. More extensive work on the thermodynamics as well as the kinetics of capillary penetration began at the end of the 19th centurv and the beginning of this century.(2–9)

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Marmur, A. (1992). Penetration and Displacement in Capillary Systems. In: Schrader, M.E., Loeb, G.I. (eds) Modern Approaches to Wettability. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1176-6_12

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