Scaling Properties of Tracer Trajectories in a Saturated Porous Medium

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-16

  Viotti, Paolo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dispersion process; Image analysis; Lagrangian analysis; Matching index; PTV; Saturated porous medium; Scaling properties; Self affinity; Tracer trajectory; Velocity components PDF

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POROUS MATERIALS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); TENSORS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (PIV); SCALING ANALYSIS; TRACER PARTICLES;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

DISPERSION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIA; TRACERS;

POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; SCALING; TRACER;

EID: 0031126580     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006593426905     Document Type: Article

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