Tortuosity in porous media: a critical review

B Ghanbarian, AG Hunt, RP Ewing… - Soil science society of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of tortuosity is used to characterize the structure of porous media, to estimate
their electrical and hydraulic conductivity, and to study the travel time and length for tracer …

Analysis of flow in fractal porous media

B Yu - Applied Mechanics Reviews, 2008 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The flow in porous media has received a great deal of attention due to its importance and
many unresolved problems in science and engineering such as geophysics, soil science …

Develo** a new form of permeability and Kozeny–Carman constant for homogeneous porous media by means of fractal geometry

P Xu, B Yu - Advances in water resources, 2008 - Elsevier
The semi-empirical Kozeny–Carman (KC) equation is the most famous permeability–
porosity relation, which is widely used in the field of flow in porous media and is the starting …