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Effect of pore structure on capillary condensation in a porous medium

M R Deinert1, J-Y Parlange

  • 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78752, USA.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|April 28, 2009
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