• A capillary is a small blood vessel or any small diameter tube. (wikipedia.org)
  • Stainless steel type 304 dial cases are featured along with 0.15in (3.81mm) diameter stems on Pocket Dial Thermometers that are 5in (127mm) in length. (rs-online.com)
  • Diameter and length of the bulb. (rs-online.com)
  • For a given pore diameter, the characteristic adsorption times are some 8 orders of magnitude slower than the terminal relaxation times and more than 12 orders of magnitude slower than the segmental times. (acs.org)
  • The jet characteristics are described as a function of (i) capillary-to-orifice distance, (ii) nozzle outlet orifice diameter and (iii) liquid feeding capillary angle. (ung.si)
  • It is observed that for each value of capillary-to-orifice distance and nozzle outlet diameter, there exists a minimum liquid flow rate below which the jet stability cannot be achieved. (ung.si)
  • It is found that the changes in the nozzle outlet diameter have the biggest influence on the jet diameter, length and velocity, while the liquid capillary angle has no observable effect on the jet characteristic. (ung.si)
  • Capillary may also refer to: Capillary length, a characteristic length scale in fluid mechanics Capillary action, the drawing of liquid into a tube or porous material Capillary electrophoresis, the separation of charged species by voltage applied to a small tube Capillary wave, is a liquid surface wave (ripples), whose dynamics are dominated by the effects of surface tension This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Capillary. (wikipedia.org)
  • Experiments on dewetting thin polymer films confirm the theoretical prediction that thermal noise can strongly influence characteristic time-scales of fluid flow and cause coarsening of typical length scales. (arxiv-vanity.com)
  • CH 4 accumulation characteristics and relationship with deep CO 2 fluid in Lishui sag, East China Sea Basin. (princetonpreventivecardiology.com)
  • The residual fluid, which is in the lungs, is absorbed through the pulmonary capillaries 2 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Our results indicate that both the contact angle hysteresis and the capillary forces play a major role in defining the relaxation time and that relaxation time scales with the inertial-capillary time when using the droplet relative deformation as the characteristic length scale for this relaxation regime. (aip.org)
  • The wave numbers (and deformation length scales) associated with these instability modes are shown to lead to the characteristic double peak spectrum of surface displacement observed in the experiments. (ed.ac.uk)
  • In accordance with this aspect of the invention the fibers are selected to have differing stretch characteristics such that, under a given common percent elongation, inelastic or permanent deformation will be produced in at least one fiber type in the cloth and elastic or non-permanent deformation will be produced in at least one other type of fiber in the cloth. (justia.com)
  • Although in bulk fluids hydrodynamic Navier-Stokes equations are proven to be valid down to the nanometer scale, in free interface flow stochastic forces induced by molecular motion can significantly alter the behavior even on a micrometer scale. (arxiv-vanity.com)
  • This enables parameters such as the contact angle and contact angle distribution to be obtained at a nanometer scale. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • The results from in situ nanodielectric spectroscopy demonstrate the capacity of the technique to provide the imbibition length, the adsorption kinetics, and, at the same time, the chain dynamics. (acs.org)
  • The simulations are compared with experimental results according to the jet thickness and length for distilled water jet and helium focusing gas, discharging into low-pressure environment of 150 Pa. (ung.si)
  • Subsequently, a numerical study of effects of nozzle geometry on stability, shape and flow characteristics of micron-sized liquid jets is performed. (ung.si)
  • Change in capillary-to-orifice distance does not affect the flow field around micro jet, so the jet stability and shape is found to be affected by the way liquid-gas interacts near meniscus. (ung.si)
  • Comparing the experiments with deterministic simulations, we show that the Navier-Stokes equation has to be extended by a conserved bulk noise term to accomplish the observed spectrum of capillary waves. (arxiv-vanity.com)
  • The effect of the surface gravity waves over sea surface roughness length ( z 0 ) is investigated from several idealized numerical experiments with the Wave-Watch-III (WW3) model. (scirp.org)
  • The characteristics of the waves depend on the controlling forces. (scirp.org)
  • Tidal waves are generated by the response to gravity of the Moon and Sun and are rather large-scale waves. (scirp.org)
  • Capillary waves are dominated by surface tension in the water. (scirp.org)
  • The results of these works pointed that the increase of roughness length (z 0 ), a height in meters at which the wind speed becomes zero, occurs in the presence of young waves, while there is a low relationship between old waves and roughness length. (scirp.org)
  • A reasonably good agreement with experimental and scaling results is found for the range of nozzle operating parameters never tackled before. (ung.si)
  • Specifically, Physical Optics Corporation will fabricate and test a solid-state filter tailored to precisely match the spectral characteristics of target compound(s), either gaseous or liquid, in the near-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. (nsf.gov)
  • Atomic force microscopy, AFM, however, has been used to characterize the topography of surfaces down to the molecular scale. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • poly (ethylene oxide) and poly(ε-caprolactone) with specific molecular characteristics. (plasticstar.io)
  • The goal of this study was to test this hypothesis by reconstructing features similar to RSL in the lab that display the same seasonal characteristics as a result of freezing and thawing cycles creating a source of subsurface liquid. (conncoll.edu)
  • They are produced by intelligently projecting hydrodynamic focusing effect from a high-speed stream of a co-flowing lower density and lower viscosity gas on a stream of liquid from a feeding capillary. (ung.si)
  • The lack of recurrence of slope lineae in these experiments suggests a need for larger scale varying topography experiments or a possible limitation due to the size of the small boxes not reaching the critical length necessary for features to form. (conncoll.edu)
  • Surfactant flooding is known to lower the interfacial tension and, hence, reduces capillary forces responsible for trapping oil. (sharif.edu)
  • As functional morphologists, we aim to connect structures, mechanisms, and emergent higher-scale phenomena (e.g., behavior), with the ulterior motive of addressing evolutionary patterns. (researchgate.net)
  • Drying in porous materials can be separated into two different stages, based on their characteristic drying rates and transport mechanisms. (nature.com)
  • The jet characteristics are analyzed as a function of operating parameters, geometry and material properties. (ung.si)
  • The molar mass dependence of the characteristic adsorption times (τ ads ∼ N 2.6 ) is in good agreement with a scaling theory proposed by de Gennes and later refined by Semenov and Joanny. (acs.org)
  • Results showed that dark wet streaks could appear along the slope as a result of capillary rise through a thin dry overburden of sediment, but there must be some sort of anisotropy introduced into the system in order for the dark line to occur in a linear trend, such as the generation of a small channel extending down the slope. (conncoll.edu)
  • To date, models of hummingbird foraging have been based on the almost two-centuries-old assumption that capillary rise loads nectar into hummingbird tongue grooves. (researchgate.net)
  • The model is evaluated by comparing predicted blood and brain concentrations to data from studies in rats and then allometrically scaling the results to humans. (cdc.gov)
  • The capillary process was strong during the phenomenon and dragged the polymer chains into the pores without melting the crystal. (plasticstar.io)
  • Also hierarchical organization of insect pad structures enables formation of multiple contacts that contribute to an enhancement of overall length of the total peeling line [7] . (beilstein-journals.org)
  • It has been recently demonstrated that adhesive tarsal setae of beetles possess material gradients along their length. (beilstein-journals.org)
  • It is demonstrated that secondary storage will occur if the fracture line density is equal to or greater than 2 m-1 and further shown what length distributions will provide secondary storage, if line density is less than 2 m-1. (cyberleninka.org)
  • The accuracy of capillaries is greater when they are shorter. (rs-online.com)
  • Given that energy content of nectar increases with sugar concentration, but that flow rate concurrently decreases due to elevated dynamic viscosity, 'capillary feeders' would optimize rates of energy intake at intermediate nectar concentrations (Baker 1975;Heyneman 1983;Kingsolver and Daniel 1983;Nicolson and Thornburg 2007;Kim et al. (researchgate.net)
  • In silico models of both diseases demonstrated similar features with properties of scale-free networks previously described in physiologic systems. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Look up capillary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. (wikipedia.org)
  • With the advent of nanofluidics in the last years it became evident that thermal noise may play an important role in all hydrodynamic processes occuring at free interfaces on small scales. (arxiv-vanity.com)
  • The disease associated networks showed scale-free network patterns similar to those reported in normal physiology. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Automatically expanded hiPSCs exhibit normal growth characteristics, and show sustained expression of the pluripotency associated stem cell marker TRA-1-60 over at least 5 weeks (10 passages). (frontiersin.org)
  • The study shows that the helium gas at the same mass flow rate provides twice the length of the jet compared to other gases. (ung.si)
  • Disorder, or small-scale heterogeneity, was introduced into the cells by randomly varying the radii of the pillars. (nature.com)
  • Capillary tubes are flexible tubes that connect bulbs or sensing elements to displays. (rs-online.com)
  • The characteristics of a single copy of a specific gene, or of a single copy of a specific location on a chromosome. (ojp.gov)
  • Finally, the profile of any watercourse will also alter its drainage characteristics. (hubpages.com)
  • 11] showed that roughness length computed as function of the developing sea state better represents the observed sea wave height (SWH). (scirp.org)
  • Plant water transport is a good example for the ongoing demand for interdisciplinary efforts to unravel form-function relationships on vastly differing scales. (springer.com)
  • Sample Characteristics - terms related to the structure and properties of the sample. (stablemicrosystems.com)
  • Our set-up enables automated, user-independent expansion of hiPSCs under fully defined conditions, and could be exploited to generate a large number of hiPSC lines for disease modeling, and drug screening at industrial scale, and quality. (frontiersin.org)