Plasma-controlled surface wettability: Recent advances and future applications

C Ma, A Nikiforov, D Hegemann… - International …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Materials with the desirable surface wettability are of key importance in diverse applications.
However, most of the existing chemical processes used for surface wettability control are …

Mixing in porous media: concepts and approaches across scales

M Dentz, JJ Hidalgo, D Lester - Transport in porous media, 2023 - Springer
This review provides an overview of concepts and approaches for the quantification of
passive, non-reactive solute mixing in steady uniform porous media flows across scales …

Transport of nano-and microplastic through unsaturated porous media from sewage sludge application

AS Keller, J Jimenez-Martinez… - Environmental Science & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Wastewater treatment plants have been identified as important hubs for small particulate
plastic, down to the nanometer scale, from urban areas to the environment. The reuse of …

3-D micro-architecture and mechanical response of soil cemented via microbial-induced calcite precipitation

D Terzis, L Laloui - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
We introduce the application of microbial-induced calcite precipitation via the ureolytic soil
bacterium Sporosarcina Pasteurii in freeze-dried form, as a means of enhancing overall …

Understanding hydraulic fracturing: a multi-scale problem

JD Hyman, J Jiménez-Martínez… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Despite the impact that hydraulic fracturing has had on the energy sector, the physical
mechanisms that control its efficiency and environmental impacts remain poorly understood …

Cell-free soil bio-cementation with strength, dilatancy and fabric characterization

D Terzis, L Laloui - Acta Geotechnica, 2019 - Springer
A multi-disciplinary approach is adopted in the present work towards investigating bio-
cemented geo-materials which extends from sample preparation, to microstructural …

Mixing-limited reactions in porous media

AJ Valocchi, D Bolster, CJ Werth - Transport in Porous Media, 2019 - Springer
Mixing-driven reactions in porous media are ubiquitous and span natural and engineered
environments, yet predicting where and how quickly reactions occur is immensely …

Dynamics of Air Flow in Partially Water‐Saturated Porous Media

I Ben‐Noah, SP Friedman… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamics of flowing air in partially water‐saturated, porous geological formations are
governed by a wide range of forces and parameters. These dynamics are reviewed in the …

Mixing and reactive fronts in the subsurface

M Rolle, T Le Borgne - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The interplay between mixing and reactive processes plays a pivotal role in a range of
biogeochemical processes controlling the transport, transformation and turnover of chemical …

A phase-field lattice Boltzmann model for simulating multiphase flows in porous media: Application and comparison to experiments of CO2 sequestration at pore scale

A Fakhari, Y Li, D Bolster, KT Christensen - Advances in water resources, 2018 - Elsevier
We implement a phase-field based lattice-Boltzmann (LB) method for numerical simulation
of multiphase flows in heterogeneous porous media at pore scales with wettability effects …