Driven Interfaces in Disordered Media: Determination of Universality Classes from Experimental Data
- 5 October 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 81 (14), 2926-2929
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.81.2926
Abstract
While there have been important theoretical advances in understanding the universality classes of interfaces moving in porous media, the developed tools cannot be directly applied to experiments. Here we introduce a method that can distinguish the isotropic and directed percolation universality classes from snapshots of the interface profile. We test the method on discrete models whose universality class is well known, and use it to identify the universality class of interfaces obtained in experiments on fluid flow in porous media.Keywords
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