"Version: 20240401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Introduction : open-channel microfluidics and open microfluidics -- 1. The theoretical basis of capillarity -- 1.1. Introduction2. The Lucas-Washburn-Bosanquet approach -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. The Bosanquet equation -- 2.3. Simplification : inertial and viscous regimes -- 2.4. The full Bosanquet solution -- 2.5. Corr…