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<journal-id>0188-6266</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Acta universitaria]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Acta univ]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0188-6266</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad de Guanajuato, Dirección de Investigación y Posgrado]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0188-62662019000100174</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15174/au.2019.2122</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Partitioning of the pore space based on a non-hierarchical decomposition model]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Particionamiento del espacio poroso basado en un modelo de descomposición no-jerárquico]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Cruz-Matías]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Irving]]></given-names>
</name>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Monterrey Departamento de Ciencias Computacionales ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2019</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2019</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>29</volume>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0188-62662019000100174&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0188-62662019000100174&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0188-62662019000100174&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Bio-CAD and in-silico experimentation currently have a growing interest in biomedical applications where scientific data coming from real samples are used to evaluate physical properties. In this sense, analyzing the pore-size distribution is a demanding task to help interpret the characteristics of porous materials by partitioning it into its constituent pores. Pores are defined intuitively as local openings that can be interconnected by narrow apertures called throats that control a non-wetting phase invasion in a physical method. There are several approaches to characterize the pore space in terms of its constituent pores, several of them requiring prior computation of a skeleton. This paper presents a new approach to characterize the pore space, in terms of a pore-size distribution, which does not require the skeleton computation. Throats are identified using a new decomposition model that performs a spatial partition of the object in a non-hierarchical sweep-based way consisting of a set of disjoint boxes. This approach enables the characterization of the pore space in terms of a pore-size distribution.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen El bio-diseño asistido por computadora (Bio-CAD) y la experimentación in-silico están teniendo un creciente interés en aplicaciones biomédicas, donde se utilizan datos científicos provenientes de muestras reales para calcular propiedades físicas. En este sentido, analizar la distribución de tamaño de poros es una tarea demandante para ayudar a interpretar las características de materiales porosos, al particionarlo en sus poros constituyentes. Los poros se definen intuitivamente como aperturas locales que pueden estar interconectadas por aberturas llamadas gargantas, que controlan una invasión de fase no-humedad en un método físico. Existen diversos enfoques para caracterizar el espacio poroso en términos de sus poros constituyentes, muchos de ellos requieren el cálculo previo de un esqueleto. Este artículo presenta un nuevo enfoque para caracterizar el espacio poroso, en términos de una distribución del tamaño de poro, que no requiere el cálculo del esqueleto. Las gargantas se identifican utilizando un nuevo modelo de descomposición que realiza una partición espacial del objeto en una forma basada en un barrido no-jerárquico, formado por un conjunto de cajas disjuntas. Este enfoque permite la caracterización del espacio poroso en términos de una distribución de tamaño de poros.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Porous media]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[pore-size distribution]]></kwd>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[computer simulation]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Medios porosos]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[distribución de tamaño de poros]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[esqueleto]]></kwd>
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