Anomalous Transport on Disordered Fractals

Anomalous Transport: Foundations and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 397-427

  Hoffmann, Karl Heinz ^a   Prehl, Janett ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anomalous diffusion; Anomalous transport; Disordered fractals; Disordered Sierpinski carpets; Fractional differential equation; Motivation; Regular Sierpinski carpets

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860688324     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527622979.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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