TY - JOUR
T1 - Driven interfaces in disordered media
T2 - Determination of universality classes from experimental data
AU - Albert, Réka
AU - Barabási, Albert László
AU - Carle, Nathan
AU - Dougherty, Andrew
PY - 1998/10/5
Y1 - 1998/10/5
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.2926
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.2926
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0001350183
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 81
SP - 2926
EP - 2929
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 14
ER -