Permeabilities of unsaturated fractal porous media

International Journal of Multiphase Flow

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1625-1642

  Yu, Boming ^a   Li, Jianhua ^b   Li , Zhihua ^a   Zou, Mingqing ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fractal; Multiphase flow; Permeability; Porous media

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MICROSTRUCTURE;

FRACTAL DIMENSIONS;

POROUS MATERIALS;

FLUID FLOW; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 0141726593     PISSN: 03019322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9322(03)00140-X     Document Type: Article

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