Thermal conductivity of a cubic lattice of spheres with capillary bridges

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 4959-4965

  Ewing, Robert P ^a   Horton, Robert ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; GRANULAR MATERIALS; GRAVEL; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOILS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CAPILLARY BRIDGES; CUBIC ARRAYS; CUBIC LATTICES;

SPHERES;

EID: 34547798536     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/40/16/031     Document Type: Article

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