Abstract
Porous materials such as aerogel, porous rocks or cements exhibit a fractal structure for a range of length scales [1]. Diffusion processes in such disordered media are widely studied in the physical literature [2, 3]. They exhibit an anomalous behavior in terms of the asymptotic time scaling of the mean square displacement of the diffusive particles
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Franz, A., Schulzky, C., Ngoc Anh3, D., Seeger, S., Balg, J., Hoffmann, K.H. (2006). Random Walks on Fractals. In: Hoffmann, K.H., Meyer, A. (eds) Parallel Algorithms and Cluster Computing. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 52. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-33541-2_17
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