Porous media play important roles in a wide range of scientific and engineering problems.
Recently, with their increasing application in energy conversion and storage devices, such …

Modeling of heterogeneous materials and media is a problem of fundamental importance to
a wide class of phenomena and systems, ranging from condensed matter physics, soft …

Since many processes in soil are highly sensitive to soil structure, this review intends to
evaluate the potential of observable soil structural attributes to be used in the assessment of …

Quantitative predictions of natural and induced phenomena in fractured rock is one of the
great challenges in the Earth and Energy Sciences with far‐reaching economic and …

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 …

Porosity plays a clearly important role in geology. It controls fluid storage in aquifers, oil and
gas fields and geothermal systems, and the extent and connectivity of the pore structure …

Obtaining structural information from tomographic images of porous materials is a critical
component of porous media research. Extracting pore networks is particularly valuable since …

Soil functions, including climate regulation and the cycling of water and nutrients, are of
central importance for a number of environmental issues of great societal concern. To …

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 …

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 …