Representative elementary area for multifractal analysis of soil porosity using entropy dimension

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 503-511

  Martínez, F San José ^a   Caniego, F J ^a   Garcia Gutierrez C ^a   Espejo, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGE; FLUID DYNAMICS; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; MICROSTRUCTURE; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 34547955208     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-14-503-2007     Document Type: Article

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