Morphology, propagation dynamics and scaling characteristics of drying fronts in porous media

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Shokri, N ^a   Sahimi, Muhammad ^b   Or, D ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; EVAPORATION; FRACTAL DIMENSION; NEUTRON RADIOGRAPHY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; SAND;

CORRELATION LENGTHS; EVAPORATION RATE; LENGTH SCALE; PINNING FORCES; PROPAGATION DYNAMICS; QUENCHED DISORDER; ROUGHNESS EXPONENT; SURFACE WETTABILITY; WAITING TIME;

MORPHOLOGY;

EVAPORATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; POROUS MEDIUM; RADIOGRAPHY; SAND; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WETTABILITY;

EID: 84862112885     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051506     Document Type: Article

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