Physicochemical Hydrodynamics of Capillary Systems
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: July 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781860941603
Subjects: Colloid chemistry; Surface chemistry & adsorption; Physics; Science; Science/Mathematics; Engineering - General; Mechanics - Dynamics - General
First sentence: Surface tension was a central notion both of the classical theory of capillarity by Laplace and Young, and of Gibbs' theory of capillarity [1], the first detailed thermodynamic theory of surface phenomena.