Sentence examples for wetting line from inspiring English sources

The lubrication model also uses boundary conditions which incorporate free surface, surface tension and wetting line effects and the predictions from both models are found to be in generally good agreement with experiment.

The model describes that the beads are left behind the receding wetting line rather than pulled towards the drop center if the biological binding force is comparable to the surface tension of the receding wetting line.

The data show that the speed which is relevant to air entrainment is not the velocity of the substrate itself but its component normal to the wetting line.

Moreover, the thickness of the liquid curtain is typically less than 0.4 mm and the region of interest close to the wetting line less than 1 mm diameter.

It is not accidental that the earliest descriptions of the moving wetting line and its associated dynamic contact angle were in terms of displaced equilibria (chemists), friction (physicists) and viscous bending of the liquid vapour interface (engineers and mathematicians).

Finally, streamlines obtained from Finite Element solutions of the flow in the reservoir and wetting line regions are found to compare well with corresponding experimental flow visualisations.

Blake, T. The physics of moving wetting lines.

Scott was a reasonably successful insurance guy, and he'd managed to combine sales trips with angling, but what he really wanted was to make his living wetting a line.

A few short tugs and away I went, feverishly winding in my reel, salt water spitting from the wet line.

We pull the salty, wet line from the water and this time we see something with the chicken on the trap's floor.

In 1973, the UFW even set up a "wet line" along 100 miles of the frontier with Mexico to keep out illegals – sometimes by force.