Traveling liquid bridges in unsaturated fractured porous media

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 129-151

  Or, Dani ^a   Ghezzehei, Teamrat A ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dripping; Fracture; Intermittent flow; Liquid bridge; Transport

Indexed keywords

INTERMITTENT FLOW; LIQUID BRIDGES;

CAPILLARY FLOW; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; FRACTURE; POROUS MATERIALS; VISCOUS FLOW;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

CAPILLARY FLOW; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; FRACTURE; POROUS MATERIALS; VISCOUS FLOW;

FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM; UNSATURATED FLOW; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 34447307943     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-006-9060-9     Document Type: Article

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