Mean survival times of absorbing triply periodic minimal surfaces

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

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Gevertz, Jana ^a   Torquato, S ^a,b,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICONTINUOUS; BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE; BROWNIAN PARTICLES; FIRST-PASSAGE; FLUID PERMEABILITY; MINIMAL SURFACES; OPTIMALITY; PORE SPACE; POROUS MEDIA; POROUS MEDIUM; SPECIFIC SURFACE; STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; SURVIVAL TIME; TRIPLY PERIODIC MINIMAL SURFACES; TRIPLY PERIODIC POROUS MEDIA; UNIVERSAL CURVE;

BIOLOGY; POROUS MATERIALS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

EID: 68949119840     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.011102     Document Type: Article

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