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The meniscus on the outside of a small circular cylinder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

David F. James
David F. James
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto
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Abstract

The method of matched asymptotic expansions is used to solve the differential equation describing the shape of a meniscus on the outside of a circular cylinder. Since the perturbation quantity is proportional to the cylinder radius, the solution is valid basically for small oylinders. The predicted meniscus height is compared with numerical data to determine the accuracy of the two-term result; the third term is found but does not improve the estimate.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 63 , Issue 4 , 15 May 1974 , pp. 657 - 664
Copyright
© 1974 Cambridge University Press

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