Capillary action drives many processes, such as the wetting of hairs on a paint brush and eyes tearing up. It enables the flow of liquid in small spaces — in the gaps between fibres in a paper towel, ...
An important observation is that fluid flow is always irreversible. It is irreversible because fluids have viscosity, and whenever velocity gradients appear in the flow there will be friction and ...
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