A study of the structure of micro and ultra filtration membranes. The Voronoi tessellation as a stochastic model to simulate the structure

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 162, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 23-43

  Jackson, N M ^a   Jafferali, R ^a   Bell, D J ^a   Davies, G A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FILTRATION; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MICROFILTRATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAFILTRATION;

CELLULOSE ACETATE; VORONOI TESSELLATION;

POLYMERIC MEMBRANES;

CELLULOSE; CELLULOSE ACETATE;

MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MICROFILTRATION; STOCHASTIC METHOD; ULTRAFILTRATION;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREEZE FRACTURE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MICROFILTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 0032767592     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-7388(99)00120-9     Document Type: Article

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