Ripening of porous media

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

Volumn 70, Issue 3 1, 2004, Pages

  Davidovitch, Benny ^a,b   Ertaş, Deniz ^a   Halsey, Thomas C ^a  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); EQUATIONS OF MOTION; ESTIMATION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SURFACE PHENOMENA; SURFACE TENSION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

CONSTANT MEAN CURVATURE (CMC) SURFACES; DISSOLUTION RATES; PORE SPACES; PRESSURE FIELDS;

POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 42749102046     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.031609     Document Type: Article

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