Scaling Behavior of Gravel Surfaces

Mathematical Geosciences

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 583-594

  Qin, Jie ^a   Zhong, Deyu ^a   Ng, Sai Leung ^b   Wang, Guangqian ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Armouring process; Multifractal analysis; Roughness; Scaling invariance

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; GRAVEL; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DISTRIBUTION OF GRAINS; FLUME EXPERIMENT; MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS; NON-STATIONARITIES; SCALING BEHAVIOR; SCALING INVARIANCE; SINGULAR MEASURES; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS;

SCALING LAWS;

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GRAVEL; ROUGHNESS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84862777476     PISSN: 18748961     EISSN: 18748953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11004-012-9392-7     Document Type: Article

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