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The number of capillary bridges in a wet granular medium

2003/07/31 by Dimitrios Geromichalos, Geromichalos, Dimitrios, Mika M. Kohonen +5
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis #Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization #Soil and Unsaturated Flow #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #cond-mat.stat-mech

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0307762

arxiv created 2003/07/31 · openalex publication_date 2003/07/31 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We observed the appearance of capillary bridges in a granular medium consisting of glass beads after adding small amounts of liquid. We found the initial bridge formation depending on the bead roughness. Furthermore we obtained a statistics for the average number of bridges for randomly packed beads in dependence of the liquid content and were able to find an explanation therefore based on recent models and former experimental data.

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