Pore scale study of permeability and tortuosity for flow through particulate media using Lattice Boltzmann method

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 886-901

  Ghassemi, Ali ^a   Pak, Ali ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Discrete element method; Lattice Boltzmann method; Permeability; Tortuosity

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF PERMEABILITY; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOWTHROUGH; GRANULAR MEDIA; GRANULAR SOILS; INTRINSIC PERMEABILITY; KINEMATIC MODEL; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD; MESOSCOPIC PROCESS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; ON FLOW; PARTICULATE MEDIA; PERMEABILITY; PORE SCALE; SPECIFIC SURFACE; TORTUOSITY; TORTUOSITY FACTOR;

GEOLOGIC MODELS; KINEMATICS; POROSITY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAIN SIZE; GRANULAR MEDIUM; NUMERICAL METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; SOIL WATER; TORTUOSITY;

EID: 79955670121     PISSN: 03639061     EISSN: 10969853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nag.932     Document Type: Article

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