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Capillary rise between elastic sheets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2006

HO-YOUNG KIM  and
L. MAHADEVAN
HO-YOUNG KIM
Affiliation:
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-744, Korea
L. MAHADEVAN
Affiliation:
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Abstract

When a paintbrush is dipped into a pot of paint and pulled out, surface tension forces cause the individual hairs in the brush to coalesce even as the brush becomes impregnated with paint. We study a simple model of this elastocapillary interaction in the context of the surface-tension-driven vertical rise of a liquid between two long flexible hydrophilic sheets that are held a small distance apart at one end. We provide an analytic theory for the static shapes of the sheets as well as the liquid rise height which is different from that of the classical law of Jurin, and show that our experiments are quantitatively consistent with the theory.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 548 , 10 February 2006 , pp. 141 - 150
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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