Centrifuge techniques and apparatus for transport experiments in porous media

Physical Modelling in Geotechnics - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics 2010, ICPMG 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1465-1470

  Mattson, E D ^a   Palmer, C D ^a   Smith, R W ^b   Flury, M ^c  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CENTRIFUGES; EFFLUENTS; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLS;

CENTRIFUGAL ACCELERATION; CONSERVATIVE TRACERS; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; EXPERIMENTAL CONTROL; EXPERIMENTAL EQUIPMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORIES; TRANSPORT EXPERIMENTS;

MOISTURE CONTROL;

EID: 84861067104     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1201/b10554-245     Document Type: Conference Paper

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