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Journal of Porous Media

ISSN for PRINT: 1091-028X

Institutional price:	$713.00
Issues per year:	8

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2006, Volume9

124 pages

Issue price - $155.00

Experimental Apparatus and Mathematical Model for Determination of Parameters of Capillary Rise in Fabrics

Mohamed Hamdaoui
Laboratoire d'Etudes des Systèmes Thermiques et Energétiques; and Département de Génie Textile, Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Monastir, (E.N.I.M), 5019 Monastir, Tunisie

Faten Fayala
Laboratoire d'Etudes des Systèmes Thermiques et Energétiques; and Département de Génie Textile, Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Monastir, (E.N.I.M), 5019 Monastir, Tunisie

Sassi Ben Nasrallah
Laboratoire d'Études des Systèmes Thermiques et Énergétiques, École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Monastir, Monastir 5019 Tunisia

ABSTRACT

In this study, an experimental device assuring the vertical suspension of a cloth surface and permitting the measure of the capillary ascension and the mass of liquid rising in fabrics is developed. The results show that the construction of the fabric and the composition and the number of yarns per centimeter have a significant influence on the diffusion coefficient, the height of the liquid at equilibrium, and the liquid mass absorbed by the fabric. The mathematical model proposed allows the determination of the governing diffusion coefficient.