Drying and percolation in correlated porous media

2018/09/10 by Soumyajyoti Biswas, Paolo Fantinel, Oshri Borgman +2 · 22 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Material Dynamics and Properties #Microfluidics #Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies #Percolation (cognitive psychology) #Percolation theory #Percolation threshold #Porosity #Porous medium #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.soft #nlin.AO

paper · pdf · open access · doi:10.1103/physrevfluids.3.124307

published in Physical Review Fluids 3(12) (American Physical Society) · 13 pages, 9 figures

arxiv created 2018/09/10 · openalex created_date 2018/09/27 · openalex publication_date 2018/12/21 · arxiv updated 2018/12/26 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We show that local structure, in an otherwise random medium, can change the nature of invasion percolation phenomena, including multiphase fluid flows. By combining microfluidic drying experiments with simple models we explain how local correlations in pore sizes lead to more extreme dynamics.

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