Porous media Primer for physicists

Lecture Notes in Physics

Volumn 771, Issue , 2009, Pages 57-96

  Hunt, Allen ^a   Ewing, Robert ^b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 62849099953     PISSN: 00758450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89790-3_3     Document Type: Article

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