Quantitative analysis of flow processes in a sand using synchrotron-based X-ray microtomography

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 112-126

  Wildenschild, D ^a   Hopmans, J W ^b   Rivers, M L ^c   Kent, A J R ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY PRESSURES; DYNAMIC EFFECTS; FLOW EXPERIMENTS; FLOW PROCESS; FLOWING WATERS; INITIAL FLOW; LARGE PORES; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE APPROACH; RESIDUAL SATURATION; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; WATER FLOWS; X RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; EXPERIMENTS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 24644495883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/4.1.112     Document Type: Article

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