Fractal model provides an alternative and useful means for studying the transport
phenomenon in porous media and analyzing the macroscopic transport properties of porous …

Over the last 30 years, discrete fracture network (DFN) modeling has been increasingly
utilized in various practical applications in geoengineering and geosciences. The geometric …

Autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) has widely been utilized as a lightweight, porous
insulation material for energy-efficient buildings. The knowledge on the thermal conductivity …

Abstract Knowledge of porosity and saturation‐dependent thermal conductivities is
necessary to investigate heat and water transfer in natural porous media such as rocks and …

Deposition of Bi on InSb (111) B reveals a striking Sierpiński-triangle (ST)-like structure in Bi
thin films. Such a fractal geometric topology is further shown to turn off the intrinsic electronic …

Dual-porosity media embedded with random fractures widely exist in water and oil
reservoirs, soils etc. The permeability of such media has been one of focuses in the area of …

The heterogeneities of shale are manifested in the complex pore spatial configurations and
the wide distribution of pore sizes. The recent advances of high-resolution imaging …

Considering the effect of Brownian motion of nanoparticles, an analytical model for effective
thermal conductivity of nanofluids is obtained. The formula of calculating effective thermal …

Thermal conduction in porous media has received wide attention in science and
engineering in the past decades. Previous models of the effective thermal conductivity of …

The study characterizes power-law fluid through charged fibrous porous media with spatial
fractional-derivative and fractal geometry. Seepage flow of power-law fluid across fractal …