Characterizing the gas permeability of natural and synthetic materials

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 277-293

  Barral, C ^a   Oxarango, L ^a   Pierson, P ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Clay; Falling pressure experiment; Gas permeability; Geomembrane; Numerical solution

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; COMPACTED CLAY LINER; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; FALLING PRESSURE EXPERIMENT; GAS BARRIER; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; POROUS MEDIA; SYNTHETIC MATERIALS; TIME CONSTANTS;

CAPILLARITY; EXPERIMENTS; GASES; GEOMEMBRANES; LANDFILL LININGS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POROUS MATERIALS;

GAS PERMEABILITY;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CLAY LINER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAS TRANSPORT; GEOMEMBRANE; NUMERICAL METHOD; PERMEABILITY; POLYMER; POROUS MEDIUM; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 76149109452     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-009-9398-x     Document Type: Article

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