Tortuosity in porous media: A critical review

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1461-1477

  Ghanbarian, Behzad ^a   Hunt, Allen G ^a   Ewing, Robert P ^b   Sahimi, Muhammad ^c  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Univ of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION IN SOIL; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITIES; LOGARITHMIC FUNCTIONS; NONLINEAR REACTION; PERCOLATION THEORY; POROUS CATALYSTS; TRACER DISPERSION; UNSATURATED POROUS MEDIA;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; DISPERSIONS; SOLVENTS;

POROUS MATERIALS;

BIOREMEDIATION; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; DIFFUSIVITY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FLOW MODELING; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERCOLATION; PORE SPACE; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER LAW; TORTUOSITY; TRACER;

EID: 84884851648     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: 14350661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2012.0435     Document Type: Review

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