HYPOTHESIS The process of dried blood spot sampling involves simultaneous spreading and penetration of blood into a porous filter paper with subsequent evaporation and drying. Spreading of small drops of blood, which is a non-Newtonian liquid, over a dry porous layer is investigated from both theoretical and experimental points of view. EXPERIMENTS AND THEORY A system of two differential equa...

We construct a novel model for the steady-state contact angles of liquid droplets at wetted substrate. The non-removable, thin film covering substrate is governed by intermolecular forces between molecules and solid, which we describe using standard disjoining pressure approximation. Balancing against surface tension, find smooth shape liquid. show that can extract an effective angle from regio...

using modern irrigation methods such as border irrigation is one way for an optimum usage of water. potato, for this study, was cultured in a farm located at kermanshah faculty of agriculture to evaluate the efficiency of border irrigation. the culture potato was the agria variety and the applied treatment were 50, 75, and 100 percent of potato plant`s water requirement. tapes were 12 m and the...

Larsson, M. 2012. Heterogeneity-Induced Channelling, Flow-Wetted Surface, and Modelling of Transport in Fractured Rock. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 971. 76 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-554-8468-2. Heterogeneities in fractured rock are found at all scales; from the scale of individual fractures, t...