Imaging and image-based fluid transport modeling at the pore scale in geological materials: A practical introduction to the current state-of-the-art

T Bultreys, W De Boever, V Cnudde - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Fluid flow and mass transport in geological materials are crucial in diverse Earth science
applications. To fully understand the behavior of geological materials in this context, the …

A critical review on pore to continuum scale imaging techniques for enhanced shale gas recovery

D Chandra, V Vishal - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Imaging and image analysis of shale provides insights into the pore and fracture networks,
disposition of compositional elements, and signatures of diagenesis and fluid flow …

Versatile and efficient pore network extraction method using marker-based watershed segmentation

JT Gostick - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
Obtaining structural information from tomographic images of porous materials is a critical
component of porous media research. Extracting pore networks is particularly valuable since …

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 …

An improved 3D microstructure reconstruction approach for porous media

KQ Li, Y Liu, ZY Yin - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Microstructure reconstruction of porous media is vital for the evaluation of material
properties, which has been applied in many fields. Various approaches have been …

An automated simple algorithm for realistic pore network extraction from micro-tomography images

A Rabbani, S Jamshidi, S Salehi - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Using 3-D scanned data to analyze and extract pore network plays a vital role in
investigation of porous media׳ s characteristics. In this paper, a new simple method is …

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 …

Assessment of bone ingrowth into porous biomaterials using MICRO-CT

AC Jones, CH Arns, AP Sheppard, DW Hutmacher… - Biomaterials, 2007 - Elsevier
The three-dimensional (3D) structure and architecture of biomaterial scaffolds play a critical
role in bone formation as they affect the functionality of the tissue-engineered constructs …

Hybrid pore-network and lattice-Boltzmann permeability modelling accelerated by machine learning

A Rabbani, M Babaei - Advances in water resources, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, a permeability calculation workflow is presented that couples pore network
modeling (PNM) with a Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) to benefit from the strengths of both …

Generalized network modeling: Network extraction as a coarse-scale discretization of the void space of porous media

AQ Raeini, B Bijeljic, MJ Blunt - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
A generalized network extraction workflow is developed for parameterizing three-
dimensional (3D) images of porous media. The aim of this workflow is to reduce the …