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 …

Building sensible processing-structure-property (PSP) links to gain fundamental insights and
understanding of materials behavior has been the focus of many works in computational …

Hydrocarbon production, gas recovery from shale, CO2 storage and water management
have a common scientific underpinning: multiphase flow in porous media. This book …

High-resolution X-ray Computed Tomography (HRXCT) or micro-CT (μCT) is a frequently
used non-destructive 3D imaging and analysis technique for the investigation of internal …

Underground coal mining suffers from groundwater intrusion from the aquifers overlying coal
seams. Therefore, developing methods for the accurate prediction of roof water inflow is …

Modeling of heterogeneous materials and media is a problem of fundamental importance to
a wide variety of phenomena with applications to many disciplines, ranging from condensed …

Accurate characterization and visualization of the complex inner structure and stress
distribution of rocks are of vital significance to solve a variety of underground engineering …

This article provides an overview of the current state of digital rock technology, with
emphasis on industrial applications. We show how imaging and image analysis can be …

Functionally graded materials (FGM) have recently attracted a lot of research attention in the
wake of the recent prominence of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies. The …

Natural rock, such as sandstone, has a large number of discontinuous, multi-scale, geometry-
irregular pores, forming a complex porous structure. This porous structure essentially …