W. G. Pritchard Lab Seminar - 109 Boucke Building

	     **November 14, 2001**
	
Onset of meniscii.

Christophe Clanet

IRPHE-CNRS
Universite' d'Aix-Marseille, FRANCE

Abstract:

In ancient Greek, `m\^en\^e' designated the moon. It is now the root
of the word `meniscus' which stands for a crescent of the moon, and is
associated with the wetting of a liquid on a solid:

When a vertical solid is brought in contact with the surface of a 
wetting liquid, a meniscus starts rising along the solid until it 
reaches its steady state. The final state is first described through
an old but forgotten analogy between pendulum, solid rods, and meniscii. 
We also study the dynamical phenomenon of the rise.