Hydraulic contacts controlling water flow across porous grains

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Carminati, A ^a,d   Kaestner, A ^a   Fluhler H ^a   Lehmann, P ^b   Or, D ^b   Lehmann, E ^c   Stampanoni, M ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NEUTRON RADIOGRAPHY; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP; WATER;

POROUS GRAINS; SPHERICAL BUMPS; WATER FLOW; X-RAY TOMOGRAPHIC MICROSCOPY;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 34548172229     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.026311     Document Type: Article

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