Papers published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions are under open-access review for the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Abstract Water infiltration into coarse textured dry porous media becomes instable depending on flow conditions characterized through dimensionless quantities, i.e. the Bond number and the Capillary number. Instable infiltration fronts break into f...

Experiments have been carried out to study the influence of moisture condition, including moisture content and its distribution, on the chloride diffusion in partially saturated ordinary Portland cement mortar. The mortar samples with water-to-cement (w/c) ratios of 0.4, 0.5 and 0.6, cured for one year, were preconditioned to uniform water saturations ranging from 18% to 100%. The interior rela...

The influence of silver nanoparticle morphology on the dissolution kinetics in ultrapure water as well as the biological effect on eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells was examined. Silver nanoparticles with different shapes but comparable size and identical surface functionalisation were prepared, i.e. spheres (diameter 40–80 and 120–180 nm; two different samples), platelets (20–60 nm), cubes (140...

A method has been developed to infer the wettability of steam-water-rock systems based on the relationship between permeability and capillary pressure by Purcell. The Purcell model was extended to two-phase flow to verify whether the wettability is a function of water saturation. The results calculated using the experimental data showed that the wettability index in drainage was greater than th...

Abstract Carbonate gas reservoirs in China are rich reserves. In the development process, there many reserves with low permeability, efficiency and recovery degree. It is difficult to stabilize well production prolong its life cycle. Under condition of original water saturation ( Sw ) 0%, 20%, 40%, 55% 65%, respectively, physical simulation experiment depletion was carried out by using long cor...

According to core data, this paper studies variation of resistivity in different pore structures and wettability conditions. The results show that with the increase of pore structure index m, the resistivity will increase significantly when the saturation is constant. Similarly, with increasing saturation index n, the resistivity will also increase even with the same saturation. With fixed m an...

Carbonate system variables were measured in the South Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean along a transect from South Africa to the southern limit of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) from February to March 2008. Eddies detached from the retroflection of the Agulhas Current increased the gradients observed along the fronts. Minima in the fugacity of CO2, fCO2, and maxima in pH on either...

1. To assess whether the mineral content of drinking water influences both risk of stone formation and bone metabolism in idiopathic calcium nephrolithiasis, 21 patients were switched from their usual home diets to a 10 mmol calcium, low-oxalate, protein-controlled diet, supplemented with 21 of three different types of mineral water. Drinking water added 1, 6 and 20 mmol of calcium and 0.5, 10 ...

Landslides are one of the main natural threats for both people and infrastructure in mountainousregions. In most cases, landslides are triggered by the loss of cohesion in a soil due to the increasingwater saturation level after long or intense rainfalls. Only little is known on the triggering of failuresat the microscopic scale due to the limited experimental accessibility and ...