Evaporation/Condensation of water in a granular medium, restricted to the pendular regime: the EWGM model
Résumé
A new model for evaporation/condensation in wet granular media has been sketched in the PhD thesis of Salwa Mansour (Dec 8, 2015) [Chapt. 6, sect. 2]. The ideas of this continuous model are taken up here and completed by detailed equations. In particular, the assumptions are listed in an exhaustive way and a discussion is conducted to identify the validity of the model, called EWGM, which stands for "Evaporation in Wet Granular Media".