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 …

Soil structure as an indicator of soil functions: A review

E Rabot, M Wiesmeier, S Schlüter, HJ Vogel - Geoderma, 2018 - Elsevier
Since many processes in soil are highly sensitive to soil structure, this review intends to
evaluate the potential of observable soil structural attributes to be used in the assessment of …

Tortuosity of porous media: Image analysis and physical simulation

J Fu, HR Thomas, C Li - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Tortuosity is widely used as a critical parameter to predict transport properties of porous
media, such as rocks and soils. But unlike other standard microstructural properties, the …

Emergent properties of microbial activity in heterogeneous soil microenvironments: different research approaches are slowly converging, yet major challenges remain

PC Baveye, W Otten, A Kravchenko… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Over the last 60 years, soil microbiologists have accumulated a wealth of experimental data
showing that the bulk, macroscopic parameters (eg, granulometry, pH, soil organic matter …

X-ray imaging and analysis techniques for quantifying pore-scale structure and processes in subsurface porous medium systems

D Wildenschild, AP Sheppard - Advances in Water resources, 2013 - Elsevier
We report here on recent developments and advances in pore-scale X-ray tomographic
imaging of subsurface porous media. Our particular focus is on immiscible multi-phase fluid …

Tortuosity in electrochemical devices: a review of calculation approaches

B Tjaden, DJL Brett… - International Materials …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The tortuosity of a structure plays a vital role in the transport of mass and charge in
electrochemical devices. Concentration polarisation losses at high current densities are …

Computationally efficient multiscale neural networks applied to fluid flow in complex 3D porous media

JE Santos, Y Yin, H Jo, W Pan, Q Kang… - Transport in porous …, 2021 - Springer
The permeability of complex porous materials is of interest to many engineering disciplines.
This quantity can be obtained via direct flow simulation, which provides the most accurate …

Multi-scale, micro-computed tomography-based pore network models to simulate drainage in heterogeneous rocks

T Bultreys, L Van Hoorebeke, V Cnudde - Advances in Water resources, 2015 - Elsevier
The multi-phase flow behavior of complex rocks with broad pore size distributions often
digresses from classical relations. Pore-scale simulation methods can be a great tool to …

Experimental study on gas diffusion dynamics in fractured coal: a better understanding of gas migration in in-situ coal seam

T Liu, B Lin, X Fu, Y Gao, J Kong, Y Zhao, H Song - Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In-situ coal seam is generally under the stress constraint condition. However, the powder
coal is often adopted to study gas diffusion dynamics in the laboratory, in this case, the …

3D multi-scale reconstruction of fractured shale and influence of fracture morphology on shale gas flow

P Hou, X Liang, Y Zhang, J He, F Gao, J Liu - Natural Resources Research, 2021 - Springer
Quantitative characterization of shale gas flow in fractured shale is a key problem in shale
gas extraction. In this study, 3D multi-scale structures in fractured shale were reconstructed …