Diffusion ellipsoids of anisotropic porous rocks calculated by X-ray computed tomography-based random walk simulations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Nakashima, Yoshito ^a   Kamiya, Susumu ^a   Nakano, Tsukasa ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION DETECTORS; DEFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; ROCKS; SANDSTONE; SCANNING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

3-D IMAGES; 3-D SPACES; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSIONS; ANISOTROPY ANALYSIS; DIFFUSING SPECIES; DIFFUSIVE TRANSPORTS; ELLIPSOID FITTINGS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; IMAGE SETS; LONG DISTANCES; MEAN SQUARE DISPLACEMENTS; POLAR REPRESENTATIONS; PORE DIAMETERS; PORE NETWORKS; PORE SPACES; POROUS ROCKS; PRINCIPAL AXES; PRINCIPAL AXIS; RANDOM WALK SIMULATIONS; ROCK SAMPLES; SANDSTONE DIAGENESIS; SELF DIFFUSIVITIES; SELF-DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; SYNCHROTRON MICROTOMOGRAPHY; TIME DERIVATIVES; TWO POINTS; WATER MOLECULES; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; X-RAY CT;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; DIFFUSION; PERCOLATION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PORE SPACE; POROUS MEDIUM; ROCK; TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY;

EID: 59649113778     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR006853     Document Type: Article

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