DISCONTINUOUS PORE FLUID DISTRIBUTION UNDER MICROGRAVITY DUE TO PARTICLE REARRANGEMENT
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This paper reports (i) the experimental investigation conducted aboard the NASA’s KC-135 reduced-gravity flights to study possible particle separation and the distribution of discontinuous wetting fluid in porous media under microgravity, and (ii) numerical study of the effect of soil particle rearrangement on the water retention characteristics in zero gravity.
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microgravity network model particle rearrangement pore fluid porous media water retention characteristicsPreview
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