Fluid Mechanics. The general behavior of fluids acting with surface tension on interfaces or boundaries.
A wick-like action whereby a liquid will migrate vertically through material, in a upward direction. The movement of the liquid material against gravity is the result of surface tension. Must be considered when material may be in contact with liquids. Dyplast's polyisocyanurate and expanded polystyrene products have no capillarity tendencies.
The elevation or depression of liquids in small-diameter tubes.
a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries
The upward movement of water, due to effects of wetting and surface tension, that occurs through the very small void spaces that exist in a soil mass.
the force that makes water adhere to the surface of soil particles in the zone of aeration despite gravity (Plants depend on capillarity to provide them with a source of water.)
The process by which water rises through rock, sediment or soil caused by the cohesion between water molecules and an adhesion between water and other materials that "pulls" the water upward.
A wick-like action whereby a liquid will migrate vertically through material, in a upward direction; as oil in a lamp travels upward through the wick
The rise of water in soils caused by capillary action.
This is the rising of liquids up a narrow tube.
The action by which the surface of a liquid (where it is in contact with a solid) is elevated or depressed, depending upon the relative attraction of the molecules of the liquid for each other and for those of the solid.
The attraction between water and soil particles which cause water to move in any direction through the soil mass regardless of gravitational forces.
Capillarity is the movement of liquid through narrow tubes as a result of surface forces. Useful products from oil
phenomenon associated with surface tension, where level of liquid in a narrow column rises or falls (depending on surface tension). Also called Capillary action.