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 …

Striving to translate shale physics across ten orders of magnitude: What have we learned?

Y Mehmani, T Anderson, Y Wang, SA Aryana… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Shales will play an important role in the successful transition of energy from fossil-based
resources to renewables in the coming decades. Aside from being a significant source of …

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 …

Effect of fluid topology on residual nonwetting phase trapping: Implications for geologic CO2 sequestration

AL Herring, EJ Harper, L Andersson… - Advances in water …, 2013 - Elsevier
This work examines the influence of initial (ie post drainage) nonwetting (NW) fluid topology
on total residual (ie after imbibition) NW phase saturation. Brine and air (used as a proxy for …

The correlation of pore morphology, interconnectivity and physical properties of 3D ceramic scaffolds with bone ingrowth

AC Jones, CH Arns, DW Hutmacher, BK Milthorpe… - Biomaterials, 2009 - Elsevier
In the design of tissue engineering scaffolds, design parameters including pore size, shape
and interconnectivity, mechanical properties and transport properties should be optimized to …

Capillary trapping in sandstones and carbonates: Dependence on pore structure

Y Tanino, MJ Blunt - Water Resources Research, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Residual non‐wetting phase saturation and wetting‐phase permeability were measured in
three limestones and four sandstones ranging in porosity from 0.13 to 0.28 and in absolute …

Pore-scale modeling of carbonates

A Mehmani, R Verma, M Prodanović - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
Carbonate rocks display complex pore textures with heterogeneities that extend over
several length scales. Identifying and capturing their significant pore space properties in a …

Reliability of algorithms interpreting topological and geometric properties of porous media for pore network modelling

TG Baychev, AP Jivkov, A Rabbani, AQ Raeini… - Transport in Porous …, 2019 - Springer
Pore network models (PNMs) offer a computationally efficient way to analyse transport in
porous media. Their effectiveness depends on how well they represent the topology and …

Energy dissipation and 3d fracturing of Backfill-encased-rock under triaxial compression

X Yu, W Song, Y Tan, J Kemeny, J Wang - Construction and Building …, 2022 - Elsevier
The cooperation of the backfill with rock is an essential project for underground mine,
especially in the room-and-pillar filling mining method. This paper discussed the relationship …