Roughness and intermittent dynamics of imbibition fronts due to capillary and permeability disorder

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 120-121, Issue C, 2011, Pages 157-169

  Planet, Ramon ^a,b   Santucci, Stéphane ^b,c   Ortín, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Avalanche dynamics; Capillarity; Flow in porous media; Imbibition; Permeability

Indexed keywords

AIR LIQUID INTERFACES; AVALANCHE DYNAMICS; CAPILLARY PRESSURES; CORRELATION LENGTHS; DISORDERED MEDIUM; FAST CAMERAS; FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA; FRONT MORPHOLOGY; FRONT VELOCITY; GAP SPACING; HELE-SHAW; HELE-SHAW CELLS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMBIBITION; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; LOCAL ROUGHNESS; LOCAL VELOCITY; NON-GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; PERMEABILITY; POWER LAW EXPONENT; RANDOM MEDIUM; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; SCALING PROPERTIES; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TWO-REGIME; WETTING LIQUIDS;

CAPILLARITY; DYNAMICS; FRACTURE; LIQUIDS; POROUS MATERIALS; STATISTICAL METHODS; VELOCITY;

PHASE INTERFACES;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; FLUID FLOW; IMBIBITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW KINETICS; FLOW RATE; FLUID FLOW; FLUID TRANSPORT; IMBIBITION; INTERFACE PRESSURE; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE TENSION; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERMEABILITY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 79251645107     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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