Microscale modelling of fruit tissue using Voronoi tessellations

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 52, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 36-48

  Mebatsion, H K ^a   Verboven, P ^a   Verlinden, B E ^b   Ho, Q T ^a   Nguyen, T A ^a   Nicolai B M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Flanders Centre of Postharvest Technology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Gas transport; Microstructure; Multiscale model; Stochastic geometry; Voronoi tessellation; Water transport

Indexed keywords

CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; RANDOM PROCESSES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

GAS TRANSPORT; MULTISCALE MODEL; STOCHASTIC GEOMETRY; VORONOI TESSELLATION; WATER TRANSPORT;

FRUITS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MICROSTRUCTURE; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

CELLS; FRUITS; MICROSTRUCTURE;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 33646079419     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2006.01.002     Document Type: Article

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