Textiles and paper are ubiquitous in our daily lives. The comfort of clothing is essentially determined by the hygrothermal behavior of textiles, as fabric sorption clothing can play a significant role in the moisture transport and heat loss caused by sweating. For paper production, the extraction of the final bound water fraction consumes large amounts of energy, and the majority of the...
The transport of particles in porous media has received growing attention in the last decades due to environmental concerns in for example the printing industry, the filtration of drinking water and the transport of pollutants in soil. The migration of particles is a complex process which depends on different physicochemical phenomena such as the liquid-particle and particle-media interaction,...
Thin, porous media are ubiquitous in several environmental, industrial and engineering fields. Examples of such media are soil, aquifers, filters, fuel cells, in addition to some biological tissues such as cartilage. The dynamical behavior of such media is typically described and predicted using mathematical models in the form of coupled, nonlinear, partial differential equations (PDEs)....
4D X-ray tomographic microscopy (XTM) offers the possibility to obtain detailed insights into the water removal process through gas diffusion layers (GDL) of polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFC) [1-4]. Recent work on droplet formation and detachment cycle [5, 6] has provided insights into the inter-action between a percolating water cluster feeding a droplet on the GDL surface and allowed the...
The inkjet technology fuels the rapidly evolving world of printing. This printing technology delivers good print quality using the flexibility of digital printing at a breakthrough cost price. The R&D department of Canon Production Printing company, is a major player in the development of inkjet technologies for many different applications.
The physical processes which regulate the...
