The number of capillary bridges in a wet granular medium
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We observed the appearance of capillary bridges in a granular medium consisting of glass beads after adding small amounts of liquid. We found the initial bridge formation depending on the bead roughness. Furthermore we obtained a statistics for the average number of bridges for randomly packed beads in dependence of the liquid content and were able to find an explanation therefore based on recent models and former experimental data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0307762,
title = {The number of capillary bridges in a wet granular medium},
author = {Dimitrios Geromichalos and Mika M. Kohonen and Mario Scheel and Stephan Herminghaus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0307762},
year = {2007}
}