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 …

The complicated flow behaviors of multiphase fluids in shale reservoirs are significantly
influenced by fluid-fluid and fluid-rock interactions due to the non-negligible intermolecular …

The stability of geological environment in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area (TGRA) has
experienced severe challenges due to the 30 m hydro-fluctuation belt (HFB). The vertical …

In order to accurately achieve the full-scale characterization of coal pore and fissure
structure, a comprehensive characterization method based on Computed Tomography (CT) …

Digital rock technology is becoming essential in reservoir engineering and petrophysics.
Three-dimensional digital rock reconstruction, image resolution enhancement, image …

The seismic peak interstory drift ratio (IDR) of RC columns following an earthquake is
measured in this paper through surface crack image analysis. The succolarity, lacunarity …

Natural porous media have extremely complex pore structures, which greatly affect the
material properties. However, it remains a challenge to characterize the pore structure …

Coal is a dual-porosity medium with an internal pore-fracture structure that serves as a
channel for the migration of coalbed methane. Understanding the relationship between …

Pore-scale fluid flow simulation on digital rocks from X-ray CT experiments can predict the
physical properties and analyze the distribution characteristics of the fluids, which is critical …

The development of shale gas necessitates accurate modeling and characterization of these
complicated formations, at both small and large scales. At the small scale, the studies based …