Pressure behavior of transport in fractal porous media using a fractional calculus approach

Energy Sources

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 881-890

  Park, H W ^a   Choe, J ^a   Kang, J M ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; URBAN PLANNING;

FRACTALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 0034548688     PISSN: 00908312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00908310051128237     Document Type: Article

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