I was looking around at some of the mods and I noticed that you guys use the wicking effect but no one mentioned Washburn's equation. Washburn's equation tells you how fast you can get fluid to wick in any pourous substance given liquid viscosity, surface tension, average pore diameter of the wicking medium, and the volume of material to wet. I have already changed it a bit for our uses as it was originally developed to determine the speed that buiscuits get soggy and solved for volume. Just rearranging things to solve for time instead. 4(viscosity)(volume^2)/(avgPoreDiameter)(surfaceTension)=wickingTime I also am writing a program for this (any chemists, developers, or engeneers who could add some units to this equation or would like to contribute would be greatly appreciated)
Experimental data will be needed to determine evaporation rates of liquid at the wick.
PM me if you want to help with the code...
Experimental data will be needed to determine evaporation rates of liquid at the wick.
PM me if you want to help with the code...
