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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 411, Issue -, Pages 257-264Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2013.05.077
Keywords
Capillary rise; Washburn equation; Dynamic contact angle; Glycerol-water mixtures
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- Australian Research Council (ARC)
- AMIRA International via the ARC [LP0667828, DP1094337]
- Australian Research Council [DP1094337] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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The classic description of capillary rise given by the Washburn equation was recently questioned in the light of experimental evidence for a velocity dependent dynamic contact angle at a moving contact line. We present a systematic investigation of the capillary rise dynamics of glycerol and aqueous glycerol solutions in vertical glass capillaries of various radii. For pure glycerol, the results of our experiments are in almost perfect agreement with the predictions of the Washburn equation using independently measured values for the liquid and capillary parameters. For aqueous glycerol solutions we observe discrepancies between the theoretical expectations and the experimental results, which are increasing with the water content of the solution. A thorough analysis, combined with scaling arguments, allows us to conclude that dynamic contact angle effects alone cannot provide a consistent explanation for these discrepancies. Rather, they can be perfectly accounted for if the mixture flowing in the capillary would have an effective, increased viscosity (in respect to the nominal value). We suggest and briefly discuss various mechanisms that could contribute to this observed behavior. (C) 2013 Published by Elsevier Inc.
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