ABSTRACT
This monograph considers liquid and vapor equilibrium and transport in porous bodies influenced by surface phenomena and taking into account conditions of restricted geometry. The data about physical properties of thin liquid layers collected in this monograph remain incomplete, and rather outline the tendency for the changes occurring in density, viscosity and solvent power. In porous bodies incompletely saturated by liquids, the flow of a wetting film is described in this monograph on the basis of hydrodynamic equations that include the gradient of disjoining pressure as a driving force. The goal of this monograph may be considered to have been achieved when it attracts the attention of the specialists working in the field of theory and practice of mass transfer processes in porous bodies to the effects of surface phenomena. This monograph represents a first attempt to include the basic ideas of surface phenomena and colloid science into the theory of mass transport in porous bodies.
