Tomography-Based Characterization and Optimization Of Fluid Flow Through Porous Media

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 535-550

  Akolkar, A ^a   Petrasch, J ^b  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b VORARLBERG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dupuit Forchheimer; Fluid Flow; Permeability; Porosity; Tomography

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; DRAG MODEL; DUPUIT-FORCHHEIMER; FLOWTHROUGH; INDICATOR FUNCTIONS; KOZENY CONSTANT; MESH GENERATORS; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; PORE SPACE; RETICULATED POROUS CERAMICS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; FLOW OF FLUIDS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PACKED BEDS; PARALLEL FLOW; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID FLOW; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTIMIZATION; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; PREDICTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84868618312     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-012-0060-7     Document Type: Article

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