Driven interfaces in disordered media: Determination of universality classes from experimental data

Réka Albert, Albert László Barabási, Nathan Carle, Andrew Dougherty

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2926-2929
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume81
Issue number14
DOIs
StatePublished - 5 Oct 1998
Externally publishedYes

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