Revisiting the most probable pore-size distribution in filter media: The gamma distribution

Filtration and Separation

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 287-292

  Johnston, Peter R ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PROBABILITY; TEXTILE FIBERS; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

FILTER MEDIA; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION;

FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS);

EID: 0032049649     PISSN: 00151882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0015-1882(98)90341-x     Document Type: Article

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