Extended power-law scaling of air permeabilities measured on a block of tuff

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-42

  Siena, M ^a,b   Guadagnini, A ^a   Riva, M ^a   Neuman, S P ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTENDED SELF SIMILARITY; FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; GAUSSIANS; HEAVY-TAILED SIGNALS; LABORATORY SCALE; MEASUREMENT VOLUME; MULTIFRACTALITY; MULTIFRACTALS; MULTISCALES; NON-GAUSSIAN; NON-LINEAR SCALING; NON-LINEAR VARIATION; PERMEABILITY FIELDS; POWER LAW SCALINGS; SAMPLE STRUCTURE; SCALING COEFFICIENTS; SCALING EXPONENT; SECOND ORDERS; SELF-AFFINE; SPRING TUFF; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS; TRUNCATED VERSIONS; VARIOGRAM MODELS;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; FRACTALS; METHOD OF MOMENTS;

AIR PERMEABILITY;

AIR PERMEABILITY; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; GAUSSIAN METHOD; NONLINEARITY; POWER LAW; ROUGHNESS; TUFF; VARIOGRAM; VOLUME;

EID: 84855566195     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-16-29-2012     Document Type: Article

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