Reply to ''Comment on 'Dynamics of wetting fronts in porous media' ''

Journal Article · Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2000 · Physical Review. E, Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.61.2152· OSTI ID:20215478

Mitkov, Igor ^[1]; Tartakovsky, Daniel M ^[2]; Larrabee Winter, C ^[2]

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1. Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
2. Scientific Computing Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)

In our work [Phys. Rev. E 58, R5245 (1998)] we introduced a dynamic phenomenological approach to model propagation of localized wetting fronts in porous media. Gray and Miller in their Comment [Phys. Rev. E 61, 2150 (2000)] criticize our approach on several issues. The main criticism addresses the problem of mass conservation in our model. In this Reply we argue that their criticism is incorrect. (c) 2000 The American Physical Society.

• OSTI ID: 20215478
• Journal Information: Physical Review. E, Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics, Vol. 61, Issue 2; Other Information: PBD: Feb 2000; ISSN 1063-651X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
WETTABILITY
POROUS MATERIALS
CAPILLARY FLOW
SATURATION
CONSERVATION LAWS
THEORETICAL DATA