Pore-network extraction from micro-computerized-tomography images

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

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Dong, Hu ^a,b   Blunt, Martin J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Numerical Rocks AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK DATA; COORDINATION NUMBER; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FORMATION FACTOR; INTERCONNECTIVITY; NETWORK MODELS; PORE GEOMETRY; PORE NETWORKS; PORE SPACE; PREDICTIVE MODELING; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; ROCK TYPES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; VOID SPACE;

CAPILLARITY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PORE STRUCTURE;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 70349766934     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.036307     Document Type: Article

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