Capillary action speed formula?

[Alfreds9]

Hi,

I was looking for a formula to describe capillary action speed in a medium.

On wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillary_action) I came across a formula which describes the cumulative volume of a liquid drawn by capillary action after time t

where V is cumulative volume, A is area, S is sorptivity and t is time.

If I reverse this to

t = (V/AS)², is this the speed/time correlation I'm looking for, or is it just a relation with volume?Thank you

Allison

 

[Andy Resnick]

Do these links help?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23063064
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathemat...-2010/lecture-notes/MIT18_357F10_Lecture8.pdf
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021979700969510

 

[Alfreds9]

Do these links help?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23063064
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathemat...-2010/lecture-notes/MIT18_357F10_Lecture8.pdf
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021979700969510

Thank you so much, it was exactly what I was looking for! :)