Grid coarsening, simulation of transport processes in, and scale-up of heterogeneous media: Application of multiresolution wavelet transformations

Mechanics of Materials

Volumn 38, Issue 8-10, 2006, Pages 772-785

  Ebrahimi, Fatemeh ^a,b   Sahimi, Muhammad ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRJAND   (Iran)

Author keywords

Flow and transport processes; Grid coarsening; Heterogeneous materials; Porous media; Wavelet transformations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COSTS; MORPHOLOGY; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

COMPUTATIONAL GRID; FLOW AND TRANSPORT PROCESSES; GRID COARSENING; HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 33747664373     PISSN: 01676636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmat.2005.06.013     Document Type: Article

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