Avalanches and non-Gaussian fluctuations of the global velocity of imbibition fronts.

Phys Rev Lett

Departament d'Estructura i Constituents de la Matèria, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain.

Published: March 2009

We present an experimental study of the global velocity V(t) of a viscous fluid interface during forced-flow imbibition in a disordered medium. Our high resolution setup shows that the fronts display an intermittent behavior signature of a burstlike dynamics, with power-law distributed avalanches. When measured at scales comparable to the correlation length, velocity fluctuations follow an asymmetric non-Gaussian distribution, whose skewness increases with decreasing measuring window and/or injection flow rate, offering the effective number of degrees of freedom probed in our experiment.

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