A fractal model for the starting pressure gradient for Bingham fluids in porous media embedded with fractal-like tree networks

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 54, Issue 21-22, 2011, Pages 4491-4494

  Wang, Shifang ^a,b   Yu, Boming ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (China)

Author keywords

Fractal like tree network; Porous media; Starting pressure gradient

Indexed keywords

BINGHAM FLUID; FRACTAL MODEL; FRACTAL-LIKE; MICROSTRUCTURAL PARAMETERS; MODEL PREDICTION; STARTING PRESSURE; STARTING PRESSURE GRADIENT; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; TREE NETWORK;

FORECASTING; FRACTAL DIMENSION; PLANT EXTRACTS; POROUS MATERIALS; YIELD STRESS;

PRESSURE GRADIENT;

EID: 79960645069     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2011.06.031     Document Type: Article

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