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 …

Modeling of heterogeneous materials and media is a problem of fundamental importance to
a wide variety of phenomena with applications to many disciplines, ranging from condensed …

An elementary question in porous media research is in regard to the relationship between
structure and function. In most fields, the porosity and permeability of porous media are …

Elastic property-porosity relationships are derived directly from microtomographic images.
This is illustrated for a suite of four samples of Fontainebleau sandstone with porosities …

Paper is a material known to everybody. It has a network structure consisting of wood fibres
that can be mimicked by cooking a portion of spaghetti and pouring it on a plate, to form a …

Estimating and minimizing several sources of numerical error result in very accurate
predictions of transport properties directly from digitized images. Simulation of electrical …

The aim of this paper is to point out the importance of geometric functionals in statistical
physics. Integral geometry furnishes a suitable family of morphological descriptors, known …

Predicting physical properties of materials with spatially complex structures is one of the
most challenging problems in material science. One key to a better understanding of such …

Three-dimensional (3D) analysis is an essential tool to obtain quantitative results from 3D
datasets. Considerable progress has been made in 3D imaging techniques, resulting in a …

The three-dimensional high-resolution imaging of rock samples is the basis for pore-scale
characterization of reservoirs. Micro X-ray computed tomography (µ-CT) is considered the …