Soil moisture (SM) is a key hydrologic state variable that is of significant importance for
numerous Earth and environmental science applications that directly impact the global …

Soil, the living terrestrial skin of the Earth, plays a central role in supporting life and is home
to an unimaginable diversity of microorganisms. This review explores key drivers for …

Biocementation is a recently developed new branch in geotechnical engineering that deals
with the application of microbiological activity to improve the engineering properties of soils …

Spontaneous imbibition of wetting liquids in porous media is a ubiquitous natural
phenomenon which has received much attention in a wide variety of fields over several …

A newly emerging microbiological soil stabilization method, known as microbially induced
calcite precipitation (MICP), has been tested for geotechnical engineering applications …

Soil habitats contain vast numbers of microorganisms and harbor a large portion of the
planet's biological diversity. Although high-throughput sequencing technologies continue to …

Methane adsorption in shale is a gas–liquid–solid interaction rather than a gas–solid
interaction by considering the initial water saturation in actual condition. As an important …

Although membrane distillation (MD) has been identified as a promising technology to treat
hypersaline wastewaters, its practical applications face two prominent challenges …

A new soil water retention curve (SWRC) equation, generalized from previous models and
the latest understanding of soil-water interaction, explicitly accounts for capillary and …

In the last 3 years there has been a huge increase in the use of pore-scale modeling to study
multiphase flow and transport in porous media. Starting from single pore models of fluid …