SCALING PROPERTIES OF POROUS-MEDIA WITH POWER-LAW PARTICLE-SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS

Authors
GHILARDI P MENDUNI G
Citation
P. Ghilardi et G. Menduni, SCALING PROPERTIES OF POROUS-MEDIA WITH POWER-LAW PARTICLE-SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS, Journal of hydrology, 187(1-2), 1996, pp. 223-236
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Civil","Water Resources","Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
Journal of hydrology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00221694
Volume
187
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
223 - 236
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-1694(1996)187:1-2<223:SPOPWP>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
Porous media whose grain sizes are distributed according to the law pr oposed by Turcotte (1986, J. Geophys. Res., 91(B2): 1921-1926) are inv estigated in order to check if the void volume is a fractal object. It is shown that a power-law distribution of the particle sizes implies a scaling structure of the voids only within a given range of values o f the porosity and of the distribution exponent.