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Applications of percolation theory

By Sahimi M.

Book information

Publisher
CRC
Year
1994
ISBN
0748400761, 9780748400768
LCC
QC174.85.P45 S24 1994
Open Library ID
OL1422620M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (3530859 bytes)
Pages
272\272
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
600
Time added
2011-07-22 07:35:22

Description

Over the past two decades percolation theory has been used to explain and model a wide variety of phenomena that are of industrial and scientific importance. Examples include characterization of porous materials and reservoir rocks, fracture patterns and earthquakes in rocks, calculation of effective transport properties of porous media permeability, conductivity, diffusivity, etc., groundwater flow, polymerization and gelation, biological evolution, galactic formation in the universe, spread of knowledge, and many others. Most of such applications have resulted in qualitative as well as quantitative predictions for the system of interest. This book attempts to describe in simple terms some of these applications, outline the results obtained so far, and provide further references for future reading.

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