Gas diffusivity through EPS foams

Journal of Cellular Plastics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 353-373

  Kannan, Pravin ^a   Biernacki, Joseph J ^a   Visco Jr , Donald P ^a   Dunne, Jordan ^a   Mether, Adrian ^a   Kirby, David ^a  

^a Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Diffusivity; EPS foams; Modeling; Multiscale

Indexed keywords

COMMONLY USED; CONTINUOUS FLOWS; DIFFUSIVITIES; EFFECTIVE PROPERTY; ELECTRICAL ANALOGY; EPS FOAMS; EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE FOAMS; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; FICKIAN; GAS DIFFUSIVITY; LENGTH SCALE; MODELING; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; MULTISCALE MODELS; MULTISCALES; PARALLEL RESISTANCE; POLYSTYRENE FILMS; STANDARD TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURES;

ARGON; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; POLYSTYRENES; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 77955856016     PISSN: 0021955X     EISSN: 15307999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021955X10367706     Document Type: Article

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