Wicking in porous materials :  traditional and modern modeling approaches / 
edited by, Reza Masoodi, Krishna M. Pillai 
 - Boca Raton :  CRC Press,  2013 
 - xii, 368p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Contents<br/><br/>1 Introduction to wicking in porous media<br/>2 Wettability and its role in wicking<br/>3 Traditional theories of wicking: capillary models<br/>4 An introduction to modeling flows in porous media<br/>5 Single-phase flow (shape -interface) models for wicking<br/>6 Modeling fluid absorption in Anisotropic fibrous<br/>7 Wicking in absorbent swelling porous materials<br/>8 Evaporation and wicking<br/>9 Pore network modeling of wicking: A two-phase flow approach<br/>10 A fractal-based approach to model wicking<br/>11 Modeling wicking in deformable porous media using mixture theory<br/>12 Simulating fluid wicking into porous media with the lattice Boltzmann method 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies . _ Index : p. 355-368 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781138076105 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Porous materials.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>620.11692  / WIC