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 …

Complex fluid flow in porous media is ubiquitous in many natural and industrial processes.
Direct visualization of the fluid structure and flow dynamics is critical for understanding and …

Viscoelastic fluids are a common subclass of rheologically complex materials that are
encountered in diverse fields from biology to polymer processing. Often the flows of …

Digital particle image velocimetry (DPIV) is a non-intrusive analysis technique that is very
popular for mapping flows quantitatively. To get accurate results, in particular in complex …

It was thought that the aerodynamics of flapping flight in birds is fully understood for quite
some time, but recent studies have shown that this is not the case. Bird flight uses …

Hydrogels hold promise in agriculture as reservoirs of water in dry soil, potentially alleviating
the burden of irrigation. However, confinement in soil can markedly reduce the ability of …

Polymer solutions are frequently used in enhanced oil recovery and groundwater
remediation to improve the recovery of trapped nonaqueous fluids. However, applications …

Diverse processes—eg, environmental pollution, groundwater remediation, oil recovery,
filtration, and drug delivery—involve the transport of colloidal particles in porous media …

There is growing interest in using advanced imaging techniques to describe the complex
pore-space of natural rocks at resolutions that allow for quantitative assessment of the flow …

Oil production is a critical industrial process that affects the entire world population and any
improvements in its efficiency while reducing its environmental impact are of utmost societal …