Extended power-law scaling of heavy-tailed random air-permeability fields in fractured and sedimentary rocks

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3249-3260

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

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIZONA; DATA SETS; ERGODICITY; EXTENDED SELF SIMILARITY; FIELD SCALE; FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION; FRACTIONAL GAUSSIAN NOISE; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; GAUSSIANS; HEAVY-TAILED; INCLINED BOREHOLES; LARGE LAG; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATE; MONOFRACTAL; MULTIFRACTALS; PACKER TESTS; POWER LAW SCALINGS; RANDOM FIELDS; SAMPLE STRUCTURE; SCALE BLOCKS; SCALING BEHAVIOR; SELF-AFFINE; SPATIAL DIMENSION; SUB-GAUSSIANS; SUBORDINATORS; UPPER CRETACEOUS;

FRACTALS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PNEUMATICS;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

AIR PERMEABILITY; BOREHOLE; BROWNIAN MOTION; CRETACEOUS; DATA SET; FRACTURE; GAUSSIAN METHOD; NONLINEARITY; PERMEABILITY; POWER LAW; SEDIMENTARY ROCK;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866154527     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-16-3249-2012     Document Type: Article

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