Estimate of transport properties of porous media by microfocus X-ray computed tomography and random walk simulation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 8-1-8-12

  Nakashima, Yoshito ^a   Watanabe, Yoshinori ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Darcy flow; Diffusion; NMR logging; Permeability; Pore; X ray CT

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WATER RESOURCES;

X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

POROUS MATERIALS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; RANDOM WALK METHOD; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037003772     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001wr000937     Document Type: Article

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