Pore-scale modeling of complex transport phenomena in porous media

L Chen, A He, J Zhao, Q Kang, ZY Li… - Progress in Energy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Porous media play important roles in a wide range of scientific and engineering problems.
Recently, with their increasing application in energy conversion and storage devices, such …

On mechanisms and models of multi-component gas diffusion in porous structures of fuel cell electrodes

J Yuan, B Sundén - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2014 - Elsevier
Small scale particles/pores from micrometers and down to nanometers often occur in multi-
functional porous electrodes in fuel cells, to enhance the catalytic reaction activities and …

OpenPNM: a pore network modeling package

J Gostick, M Aghighi, J Hinebaugh… - … in Science & …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pore network modeling is a widely used technique for simulating multiphase transport in
porous materials, but there are very few software options available. This work outlines the …

A pore network model for simulating non-ideal gas flow in micro-and nano-porous materials

J Ma, JP Sanchez, K Wu, GD Couples, Z Jiang - Fuel, 2014 - Elsevier
The capability to simulate real gas flow in porous materials with micro-and nano-meter-scale
pores is of importance in many applications, such as gas extraction from shale reservoirs …

[HTML][HTML] An efficient coupling of free flow and porous media flow using the pore-network modeling approach

K Weishaupt, V Joekar-Niasar, R Helmig - Journal of Computational …, 2019 - Elsevier
Macro-scale models of coupled free flow and flow through a permeable medium often lack
the capabilities to account for process-relevant complexities on the pore scale. Direct …

Pore-scale modeling of gas diffusion layers: Effects of compression on transport properties

L Zhu, H Zhang, L Xiao, A Bazylak, X Gao… - Journal of Power Sources, 2021 - Elsevier
A pore-scale simulation approach combining the pore-scale model (PSM) and lattice
Boltzmann method (LBM) is developed for a gas diffusion layer (GDL) of a proton exchange …

Implications of inherent inhomogeneities in thin carbon fiber-based gas diffusion layers: A comparative modeling study

PA García-Salaberri, IV Zenyuk, G Hwang, M Vera… - Electrochimica …, 2019 - Elsevier
Thin porous media are present in multiple electrochemical energy devices, where they
provide key transport and structural functions. The prototypical example is gas diffusion …

Characterisation of reactive transport in pore-scale correlated porous media

M Liu, P Mostaghimi - Chemical Engineering Science, 2017 - Elsevier
We apply a reactive transport model to study the effect of correlation length on dissolution
and to characterise reactive transport in pore-scale correlated porous media. Porous media …

PoreFlow: A complex pore-network model for simulation of reactive transport in variably saturated porous media

A Raoof, HM Nick, SM Hassanizadeh… - Computers & Geosciences, 2013 - Elsevier
This study introduces PoreFlow, a pore-network modeling tool capable of simulating fluid
flow and multi-component reactive and adsorptive transport under saturated and variably …

Pore network modeling of reaction-diffusion in hierarchical porous particles: The effects of microstructure

MA Sadeghi, M Aghighi, J Barralet… - Chemical Engineering …, 2017 - Elsevier
A general framework based on pore network modeling is presented for simulation of reactive
transport in a porous catalyst with a hierarchy of porosity. The proposed framework is …