Using X-ray micro-tomography and pore-scale modeling to quantify sediment mixing and fluid flow in a developing streambed

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Chen, Cheng ^a   Packman, Aaron I ^a   Gaillard, Jean François ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC SYSTEM; BED SURFACE; FINE SEDIMENTS; FLUID FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; IMAGE DATA; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; PORE FLUID FLOW; PORE-SCALE MODELING; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPHERICAL GLASS; STREAMBED; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES; VERTICAL GRADIENTS; X-RAY MICRO-TOMOGRAPHY;

FLOW SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MIXING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

FLUID FLOW; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MIXING; MODELING; PERMEABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STREAM BED; TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY;

EID: 67449142967     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037157     Document Type: Article

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