Preface ....................................................... vii
Editors ........................................................ ix
Contributors ................................................... xi
1 Introduction to Wicking in Porous Media ...................... 1
Reza Masoodi and Krishna M. Pillai
2 Wettability and Its Role in Wicking ......................... 13
Jijie Zhou
3 Traditional Theories of Wicking: Capillary Models ........... 31
Reza Masoodi and Krishna M. Pillai
4 An Introduction to Modeling Flows in Porous Media ........... 55
Krishna M. Pillai and Kamel Hooman
5 Single-Phase Flow (Sharp-Interface) Models for Wicking ...... 97
Reza Masoodi and Krishna M. Pillai
6 Modeling Fluid Absorption in Anisotropic Fibrous Porous
Media ...................................................... 131
Hooman Vahedi Tafreshi and Thomas M. Bucher
7 Wicking in Absorbent Swelling Porous Materials ............. 161
Vladimir Mirnyy, Volker Clausnitzer, Hans-Jörg G.
Diersch, Rodrigo Rosati, Mattias Schmidt, and Holger
Beruda
8 Evaporation and Wicking .................................... 201
Stéphanie Veran-Tissoires, Sandrine Geoffroy, Manuel
Marcoux, and Marc Prat
9 Pore-Network Modeling of Wicking: A Two-Phase Flow
Approach ................................................... 237
Vahid Joekar-Niasar and S. Majid Hassanizadeh
10 A Fractal-Based Approach to Model Wicking .................. 263
Jianchao Cai, Boming Yu, and Xiangyun Нu
11 Modeling Wicking in Deformable Porous Media Using Mixture
Theory ..................................................... 295
Daniel M. Anderson and Javed I. Siddique
12 Simulating Fluid Wicking into Porous Media with the
Lattice Boltzmann Method ................................... 327
Marcel G. Schaap and Mark L. Porter
Index ......................................................... 355
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