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Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 142879, 11 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/142879
Research Article
Mesoscopic Modeling of Multiphysicochemical Transport Phenomena in Porous Media
Computational Earth Science Group, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Received 6 October 2009; Accepted 11 December 2009
Academic Editor: Chen Li
Copyright © 2010 Qinjun Kang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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