Soft matter in hard confinement: phase transition thermodynamics, structure, texture, diffusion and flow in nanoporous media

P Huber - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Spatial confinement in nanoporous media affects the structure, thermodynamics and mobility
of molecular soft matter often markedly. This article reviews thermodynamic equilibrium …

Soil wettability in ground engineering: fundamentals, methods, and applications

SDN Lourenço, Y Saulick, S Zheng, H Kang, D Liu… - Acta Geotechnica, 2018 - Springer
Wettability is a fundamental property controlling the extent of wetting in flat and granular
solids. In natural soils, wettability affects a wide variety of processes including infiltration …

Closed-form equation for thermal conductivity of unsaturated soils at room temperature

N Lu, Y Dong - Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental …, 2015 - ascelibrary.org
Thermal conductivity is a fundamental physical property governing heat transfer in soil. It
depends on soil types, pore structure, temperature, and moisture content, and can vary over …

Pore-scale model for water retention and fluid partitioning of partially saturated granular soil

WJ Likos, R Jaafar - Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental …, 2013 - ascelibrary.org
A model for the water retention behavior of unsaturated granular soil is developed by
extending the classic bundled cylindrical capillary representation of pore space to a …

Determination of a pedotransfer function for specific air–water interfacial area in sandy soils: A pore network‐informed multigene genetic programming approach

R Mirghafari, E Nikooee, A Raoof… - Vadose Zone …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding specific air–water interfacial area (SAWIA) is essential for characterizing and
modeling various phenomena in vadose zone hydrology, such as virus and colloid transport …

Fundamental challenges in unsaturated soil mechanics

WJ Likos, X Song, M Xiao, A Cerato, N Lu - Geotechnical fundamentals for …, 2019 - Springer
Fundamental challenges in unsaturated soil mechanics have been identified in four major
areas: quantifying internal stress state, developing a new paradigm for soil classification …

Water distribution variation in partially saturated granular materials using neutron imaging

FH Kim, D Penumadu, DS Hussey - Journal of geotechnical and …, 2012 - ascelibrary.org
The use of neutron imaging is demonstrated for visualizing and quantifying water distribution
in partially saturated granular porous media. Because of the unique difference in the total …

[HTML][HTML] A model for the formation and evolution of structure of initial loess deposits

W Zhang, Y Li, R Wang, MA Beroya-Eitner - Catena, 2022 - Elsevier
The wetting and drying process is one of the commonest natural conditions the loess deposit
encounter in its life span, and drives the formation and evolution of loess structure …

Effective stress in unsaturated soil: accounting for surface tension and interfacial area

WJ Likos - Vadose Zone Journal, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A pore-scale model for water retention and the specific air–water interfacial area is
developed to quantitatively assess the contribution of interfacial forces to effective stress in …

A 3D grain‐based reconstruction method from a 2D surface image for the Distinct Lattice Spring Model

XD Wei, ZQ Deng, Q Li, Y Huang… - International Journal for …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, a surface image‐based 3D grain‐based model (GBM) reconstruction method
based on the digital image processing (DIP) technique, periodic random packing and the …