Development of graphical methods for estimating the diffusivity coefficient of gases in bitumen from pressure-decay data

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2041-2049

  Sheikha, Hussain ^a   Pooladi Darvish, Mehran ^a   Mehrotra, Anil K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION; GASES; GRAPHIC METHODS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BITUMEN; DIFFUSIVITY COEFFICIENT; PRESSURE DECAY DATA;

ASPHALT;

EID: 26944481633     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef050057c     Document Type: Article

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