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In this paper we try to work out in detail the implications of a microscopic theory for capillary waves under the assumption that the density is given along lines normal to the interface. Our study provides interface Hamiltonians for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-07 Luis G. MacDowell

The formulation of a model for the evolution of the flow of a solid-liquid mixture (coal-water) in a horizontal pipeline with partial phase separation is the aim of this work. Problems of instabilities due to complex eigenvalues, observed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-12-14 Alessandro Speranza

When a capillary channel with corners is wetted by a fluid, there are regions where the fluid fills the whole cross-section and regions where only the corners are filled by the fluid. The fluid fraction of the partially-filled region,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-18 Tian Yu , Qicheng Sun , Chen Zhao , Jiajia Zhou , Masao Doi

We present gravimetrical and optical imaging experiments on the capillarity-driven imbibition of silicone oils in monolithic silica glasses traversed by 3D networks of pores (mesoporous Vycor glass with 6.5 nm or 10 nm pore diameters). As…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-11-25 Simon Gruener , Patrick Huber

This note focuses on the development of a 2D model of a thin liquid film flowing down inside a vertical pipe. This model is based on the large wavelength assumption and valid for high Reynolds and Weber numbers.

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Samuel Ndoumbe , François Lusseyran , Boujema Izrar

We present a macroscopic theory of capillary condensation in slits formed by parallel walls of unequal length. Using the concept of an edge contact angle, we identify four distinct condensation states and derive Kelvin-like relations for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-17 Alexandr Malijevský

Numerical simulations of two-dimensional capillary filling using the pseudo-potential lattice Boltzmann model for multiphase fluids are presented, with special emphasis on the role of finite-vapour density effects. It is shown that whenever…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2008-01-29 F. Diotallevi , L. Biferale , S. Chibbaro , G. Pontrelli , F. Toschi , S. Succi

A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model is developed to simulate the dynamics of meniscus formation and capillary flow between vertical parallel plates. The arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) approach was employed to predict and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-12 Mohammad Naghashnejad , Hamidreza Shabgard

The anomalous dynamics of capillary rise in a porous medium discovered experimentally more than a decade ago (Delker et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 76 (1996) 2902) is described. The developed theory is based on considering the principal modes of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-05 Yulii Shikhmurzaev , James Sprittles

If a droplet is placed on a substrate with a conical shape it spontaneously starts to spread in the direction of a growing fibre radius. We describe this capillary spreading dynamics by developing a lubrication approximation on a cone and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-13 Tak Shing Chan , Fan Yang , Andreas Carlson

Evaporation of multi-component liquid mixtures in confined geometries, such as capillaries, is crucial in applications such as microfluidics, two-phase cooling devices, and inkjet printing. Predicting the behaviour of such systems becomes…

This article discusses the way the standard description of capillary filling dynamics has to be modified to account for liquid/solid slip in nanometric pores. It focuses in particular on the case of a large slip length compared to the pore…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-12-07 Laurent Joly

We introduce suitable coordinate systems for pipes and their variants that allow us to transform partial differential equations (PDEs) on the pipe surfaces or in the solid pipes into computational domains with fixed limits/ranges. Such a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Shuaifei Hu , Yujian Jiao , Desong Kong , Li-Lian Wang

When a fluid that undergoes a vapor to liquid transition in the bulk is confined to a long cylindrical pore, the phase transition is shifted (mostly due to surface effects at the walls of the pore) and rounded (due to finite size effects).…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Alexander Winkler , Dorothea Wilms , Peter Virnau , Kurt Binder

We study two-phase displacement via the steady compression of an air reservoir connected to an oil-filled capillary tube. Our experiments and modelling reveal complex displacement dynamics depending on compression rate and reservoir volume…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-28 Callum Cuttle , Christopher W. MacMinn

We report a new first-order phase transition preceding capillary condensation and corresponding to the discontinuous formation of a curved liquid meniscus. Using a mean-field microscopic approach based on the density functional theory we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-13 Petr Yatsyshin , Nikos Savva , Serafim Kalliadasis

Turbulent concentric coaxial pipe flows are numerically investigated as canonical problem addressing spanwise curvature effects on heat and momentum transfer that are encountered in various engineering applications. It is demonstrated that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-04 Marten Klein , Pei-Yun Tsai , Heiko Schmidt

Carbonates are highly heterogeneous formations with large variations in pore size distribution and pore space topology, which results in complex multiphase flow behavior. Here we investigate the spontaneous imbibition behavior of fluids in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-30 Hasan J. Khan , Ayaz Mehmani , Maša Prodanović , David DiCarlo , Dayeed J. Khan

We discuss the creeping motion of plugs of negligible viscosity in rough capillary tubes filled with carrier fluids. This extends Bretherton's research work on the infinite-length bubble motion in a cylindrical or smooth tube for small…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-03-16 Quan Zhang , Konstantin S. Turitsyn , Thomas A. Witten

Wang, Weng and Xia[Math. Ann. 388 (2024), no. 2] studied a mean curvature type flow for the smooth, embedded capillary hypersurfaces with a constant contact angle $\theta\in(0,\pi)$ and confirmed the existence of solutions by the standard…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Linlin Fan , Peibiao Zhao