Measuring the fractal dimension of diesel soot agglomerates by fractional Brownian motion processor

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 3565-3572

  Luo, Chin Hsiang ^a   Lee, Whei May Grace ^b   Lai, Yan Chiou ^b   Wen, Che Yen ^c   Liaw, Jiun Jian ^d  

^a HUNGKUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CENTRAL POLICE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fractional Brownian motion; Scanning electron microscopy; Soot agglomerate; Texture

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; DIESEL FUELS; DYNAMOMETERS; ESTIMATION; FRACTALS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DIESEL SOOT AGGLOMERATES; FRACTAL DIMENSIONS; FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION (FBM) ANALYSIS; HURST COEFFICIENTS;

SOOT;

DIESEL FUEL;

SOOT; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DYNAMOMETRY; ELECTRONICS; EXHAUST GAS; EXTRACT; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROSCOPY; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RECORDING; SCALE UP; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOOT; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 20444422194     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.02.033     Document Type: Article

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