Discrimination of fractional Brownian movement and fractional Gaussian noise structures in permeability and related property distributions with range analyses

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2601-2605

  Liu, H H ^a   Molz, F J ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; NOISE; PERMEABILITY;

FRACTAL DISTRIBUTION; FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION; FRACTIONAL GAUSSIAN NOISE; PERMEABILITY; RANGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029662928     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR01394     Document Type: Article

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