Measurement of Void Size Correlation in Inhomogeneous Porous Media

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 135-158

  Mathews, Toby ^a   Matthews, G Peter ^a   Ridgway, Cathy J ^a   Moss, Adam K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Inhomogeneous; Lamination; Serial section; Stereology; Variogram; Void size correlation

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; GLASS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SANDSTONE; SINTERING;

CUBIC SPLINE SMOOTHING; STEREOLOGY; VARIOGRAMS; VOID SPACE RECONSTRUCTION;

POROUS MATERIALS;

DRAINAGE; IMAGING TECHNIQUE; POROUS MEDIUM;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; POROUS MEDIUM; VOID SIZE;

EID: 0031201015     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006570830804     Document Type: Article

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