Capillary Rise in Nanopores: Molecular Dynamics Evidence for the Lucas-Washburn Equation

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2007-03-30

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0703282v1

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

4 pages 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.054501

When a capillary is inserted into a liquid, the liquid will rapidly flow into it. This phenomenon, well studied and understood on the macroscale, is investigated by Molecular Dynamics simulations for coarse-grained models of nanotubes. Both a simple Lennard-Jones fluid and a model for a polymer melt are considered. In both cases after a transient period (of a few nanoseconds) the meniscus rises according to a $\sqrt{\textrm{time}}$-law. For the polymer melt, however, we find that the capillary flow exhibits a slip length $\delta$, comparable in size with the nanotube radius $R$. We show that a consistent description of the imbibition process in nanotubes is only possible upon modification of the Lucas-Washburn law which takes explicitly into account the slip length $\delta$.

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