Entropies and scaling exponents of street and fracture networks

Entropy

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 800-833

  Mohajeri, Nahid ^a   Gudmundsson, Agust ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entropy; Fracture networks; Power laws; Scaling exponents; Street networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860658056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e14040800     Document Type: Article

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