Numerical study of the effects of particle shape and polydispersity on permeability

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

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Garcia, Xavier ^a   Akanji, Lateef T ^a   Blunt, Martin J ^a   Matthai, Stephan K ^b   Latham, John Paul ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLUID FLOW; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; GRAIN SHAPES; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; HYDRAULIC PERMEABILITY; NONSPHERICAL PARTICLE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PARTICLE SHAPE;

CAPILLARITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRICTION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POLYDISPERSITY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

EID: 70349241904     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.021304     Document Type: Article

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