Anisotropic scaling of Berea sandstone log air permeability statistics

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Riva, Monica ^a,b   Neuman, Shlomo P ^b   Guadagnini, Alberto ^a,b   Siena, Martina ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI PERSISTENCES; DIRECTIONAL DEPENDENCE; EXTENDED SELF SIMILARITY; FRACTIONAL GAUSSIAN NOISE; NON-LINEAR SCALING; ORTHOGONAL DIRECTIONS; STATISTICAL DEPENDENCE; UNSATURATED BLOCKS;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; SANDSTONE;

STATISTICS;

AIR PERMEABILITY; BEDDING PLANE; DATA ACQUISITION; NONLINEARITY; SANDSTONE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNSATURATED MEDIUM;

BEREA; LESOTHO;

EID: 84881579372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2012.0153     Document Type: Article

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