Imaging and image-based fluid transport modeling at the pore scale in geological materials: A practical introduction to the current state-of-the-art

T Bultreys, W De Boever, V Cnudde - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Fluid flow and mass transport in geological materials are crucial in diverse Earth science
applications. To fully understand the behavior of geological materials in this context, the …

Overview of the use of micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) to investigate the relation between the material characteristics and properties of cement-based …

SY Chung, JS Kim, D Stephan, TS Han - Construction and Building …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cement-based materials are generally highly heterogeneous, and their material properties
are strongly affected by the characteristics and spatial distributions of each constituent …

Versatile and efficient pore network extraction method using marker-based watershed segmentation

JT Gostick - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
Obtaining structural information from tomographic images of porous materials is a critical
component of porous media research. Extracting pore networks is particularly valuable since …

Machine learning for predicting properties of porous media from 2d X-ray images

N Alqahtani, F Alzubaidi, RT Armstrong… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract In this paper, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are trained to rapidly estimate
several physical properties of porous media using micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) …

A review of microstructure characterization of asphalt mixtures using computed tomography imaging: Prospects for properties and phase determination

J Taheri-Shakib, A Al-Mayah - Construction and Building Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
The analysis of microstructural characteristics and evolution of asphalt mixtures is essential
due to their impact on the macroscopic performance of the pavement. X-ray Computed …

[HTML][HTML] Metal 3D-printed wick structures for heat pipe application: Capillary performance analysis

D Jafari, WW Wits, BJ Geurts - Applied thermal engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper examines the so-called capillary performance of a freeform porous structure
fabricated by advanced 3D metal printing technology. The fabricated structure is intended as …

A critical review on pore to continuum scale imaging techniques for enhanced shale gas recovery

D Chandra, V Vishal - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Imaging and image analysis of shale provides insights into the pore and fracture networks,
disposition of compositional elements, and signatures of diagenesis and fluid flow …

Hybrid pore-network and lattice-Boltzmann permeability modelling accelerated by machine learning

A Rabbani, M Babaei - Advances in water resources, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, a permeability calculation workflow is presented that couples pore network
modeling (PNM) with a Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) to benefit from the strengths of both …

Generalized network modeling: Network extraction as a coarse-scale discretization of the void space of porous media

AQ Raeini, B Bijeljic, MJ Blunt - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
A generalized network extraction workflow is developed for parameterizing three-
dimensional (3D) images of porous media. The aim of this workflow is to reduce the …

Digital rock physics, chemistry, and biology: challenges and prospects of pore-scale modelling approach

S Sadeghnejad, F Enzmann, M Kersten - Applied Geochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon rocks have complicated pore structures with
heterogeneities distributed over various length scales (from nanometre to centimetre or even …