Analysis of flow in fractal porous media

Applied Mechanics Reviews

Volumn 61, Issue 1-6, 2008, Pages 0508011-05080119

  Yu, Boming ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; POROUS MATERIALS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

FIBROUS COMPOSITES; FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA; FRACTAL GEOMETRY; FRACTAL GEOMETRY THEORIES; FRACTAL POROUS MEDIA; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING; SYNTHETIC POROUS MEDIA; THEORETICAL STUDY;

FRACTALS;

EID: 59349089806     PISSN: 00036900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2955849     Document Type: Review

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