Multiscale method for characterization of porous microstructures and their impact on macroscopic effective permeability

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1260-1279

  Sun, W C ^a   Andrade, J E ^a   Rudnicki, J W ^b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometrical tortuosity; Lattice Boltzmann finite element method; Level set method

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE; DIGITAL IMAGE; EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITY; FLUID TRANSPORT; GEOMETRICAL TORTUOSITY; LATTICE BOLTZMANN; LEVEL SET METHOD; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; MICROSCOPIC PROPERTIES; MULTISCALE FRAMEWORK; MULTISCALE METHOD; NON DESTRUCTIVE; POROUS MICROSTRUCTURE; TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY CT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DROP BREAKUP; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GRAPH THEORY; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 79956372088     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.3220     Document Type: Article

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