Macroscopic diffusional anisotropy in porous media

Chaos, solitons and fractals

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1297-1301

  Rigby, Sean P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYST SUPPORTS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; FRACTALS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS;

DIFFUSIONAL ANISOTROPY; TORTUOSITY;

DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS;

EID: 0033888741     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(99)00039-9     Document Type: Article

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