Fractal-like tree networks increasing the permeability

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Chen, Jun ^a   Yu, Boming ^a   Xu, Peng ^a   Li, Yonghua ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MICROSTRUCTURE; POROSITY; TENSORS;

FRACTAL LIKE TREE NETWORKS; PERMEABILITY TENSORS; SURFACE POROSITY; TREE NETWORKS;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 34247596388     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.056301     Document Type: Article

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