Research Letters in Materials Science
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 701512, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/701512
Research Letter

Flow through a Two-Scale Porosity Material

A. G. Andersson,1 L. G. Westerberg,1 T. D. Papathanasiou,2 and T. Staffan Lundström1

1Division of Fluid Mechanics, Luleå University of Technology, 971 87 Luleå, Sweden
2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, 38 334 Volos, Greece

Received 3 December 2008; Accepted 31 May 2009

Academic Editor: Luigi Nicolais

Copyright © 2009 A. G. Andersson 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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