Tortuosity of porous media: Image analysis and physical simulation

Tortuosity-porosity relation in porous media flow.

We study numerically the tortuosity-porosity relation in a microscopic model of a porous medium arranged as a collection of freely overlapping squares. It is demonstrated that the finite-size, slow relaxation and discretization errors, which were ignored in previous studies, may cause significant underestimation of tortuosity. The simple tortuosity calculation method proposed here eliminates th...

Hydraulic tortuosity in arbitrary porous media flow.

Tortuosity (T) is a parameter describing an average elongation of fluid streamlines in a porous medium as compared to free flow. In this paper several methods of calculating this quantity from lengths of individual streamlines are compared and their weak and strong features are discussed. An alternative method is proposed, which enables one to calculate T directly from the fluid velocity field,...

the differential effects of debate and media analysis as relate to enhancing efl learners critical thinking ability and writing performances

critical thinking ability has an important role in education. accordingly, scholars around the world are searching for new ways for teaching and improving students critical thinking ability. in line with the studies in efl contexts supporting the positive relationship between critical thinking and writing performances, this study investigated the differential effects of halverson’s critical thi...

Numerical Simulation of Combustion in Porous Media

Simulation of Foam Transport in Porous Media

FOllin is an excellent fluid for achieving mobility control of gas in porous media. Practical application of fOllins for EOR processes, however requires a predictive model of foam displacement. Further, quantitative information on fOllin-flow behavior at reservoir flow rates llild pressures is required as input to llily field-scale modeling. An experimental and mechanistic-modeling study is rep...