Electrical Conductivity and Percolation Aspects of Statistically Homogeneous Porous Media

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 61-83

  Ioannidis, M A ^a   Kwiecien, M J ^a   Chatzis, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbonates; Conductivity; Correlation; Microstructure; Percolation; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); POROUS MATERIALS;

CORRELATION LENGTH; FORMATION FACTOR; POROUS MEDIA;

POROSITY;

CARBONATE; CONDUCTIVITY; PERCOLATION; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 0031256082     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006557614527     Document Type: Article

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