Fluctuations in Fluid Invasion into Disordered Media

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© 2007 American Physical Society (APS). This is the accepted version of the following article: Rost, Martin & Laurson, Lasse & Dubé, Martin & Alava, Mikko J. 2007. Fluctuations in Fluid Invasion into Disordered Media. Physical Review Letters. Volume 98, Issue 5. 054502/1-4. ISSN 0031-9007 (printed). DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.98.054502, which has been published in final form at http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.054502.

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School of Science | A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2007

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en

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054502/1-4

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Physical Review Letters, Volume 98, Issue 5

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Interfaces moving in a disordered medium exhibit stochastic velocity fluctuations obeying universal scaling relations related to the presence or absence of conservation laws. For fluid invasion of porous media, we show that the fluctuations of the velocity are governed by a geometry-dependent length scale arising from fluid conservation. This result is compared to the statistics resulting from a nonequilibrium (depinning) transition between a moving interface and a stationary, pinned one.

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disordered systems, dynamics of interfaces

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Rost, Martin & Laurson, Lasse & Dubé, Martin & Alava, Mikko J. 2007. Fluctuations in Fluid Invasion into Disordered Media. Physical Review Letters. Volume 98, Issue 5. 054502/1-4. ISSN 0031-9007 (printed). DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.98.054502.