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

Phys Rev E Stat Phys Plasmas Fluids Relat Interdiscip Topics. 2000 Feb;61(2):2152-3. doi: 10.1103/physreve.61.2152.

Abstract

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.