On the Influence of Grain Size Compared with Other Internal Factors Affecting the Permeability of Granular Porous Media: Redefining the Permeability Units

J Díaz-Curiel, B Biosca, L Arévalo-Lomas… - …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This study first reviews the influence of grain size on the permeability of porous granular
media in comparison to other factors, especially the sorting of grain size distribution, in order …

New Empirical Laws in Geosciences: A Successful Proposal

J Díaz-Curiel, B Biosca, L Arévalo-Lomas… - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The importance of empirical versus theoretical laws is a controversial issue in many
scientific fields, the latter being generally accepted and the relevance of which is not …

Analytical prediction of the formation factor for isotropic mono-sized unconsolidated porous media

YHN Awountsa, GPJ Diedericks, GJF Smit… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Analytical expressions are derived for the formation factor as a function of porosity based on
the Representative Unit Cell model for unconsolidated media by applying volume averaging …