Meandering through tortuous porous rock - seriously good looking science!
How often do you get complimented that your science looks good? I'm talking aesthetically here.
Well our GERC Research Fellow, Dr Chunyu Jin, recently did when an image from his newly published paper 'Statistics of highly heterogeneous flow fields confined to three-dimensional random porous media' was featured in the PRE Kaleidoscope for January 2016. Kaleidoscope selections are based on aesthetic only.
The picture selected for the Kaleidoscope shows representative fluid particles through the pore space for a porous foam visualized in terms of normalized velocity magnitude.
So here are the other two aesthetically pleasing images! Both samples from the same experiment. It's not everyday you get a compliment so we'll take it!
Dr Chunyu Jin explains more about the research, published in Physical Review E.
GERC director, Dr Matthew Hall and the lead for the GERC Doctoral Centre, Prof. Sean Rigby are both co-authors on the paper.
Jin, C, Langston, P.A., Pavlovskaya, G.E., Hall, M.R., and Rigby, S.R. 2016. Statistics of highly heterogeneous flow fields confined to three-dimensional random porous media. Physical Review E [online]. 93(1), pp. 1-10.
Well our GERC Research Fellow, Dr Chunyu Jin, recently did when an image from his newly published paper 'Statistics of highly heterogeneous flow fields confined to three-dimensional random porous media' was featured in the PRE Kaleidoscope for January 2016. Kaleidoscope selections are based on aesthetic only.
The picture selected for the Kaleidoscope shows representative fluid particles through the pore space for a porous foam visualized in terms of normalized velocity magnitude.
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| Representative fluid particles through the pore space for a porous foam visualized in terms of normalized velocity magnitude |
So here are the other two aesthetically pleasing images! Both samples from the same experiment. It's not everyday you get a compliment so we'll take it!
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| Representative fluid particles through the pore space for (b) sphere packing via DEM and (c) Bentheimer Sandstone in terms of normalized velocity magnitude |
Dr Chunyu Jin explains more about the research, published in Physical Review E.
The flow process through porous media is crucial to a variety of applications, including enhanced oil recovery, geological carbon storage and sequestration, under-ground water treatment etc. The laminar flow field is usually determined by the underlying pore geometry.
Here we study the relationship between the microstructural characteristics of, and the fluid velocity fields confined to, three-dimensional random porous materials. We give direct quantitative evidence that the velocity field in indeed related to the pore geometry and provide an understanding of the heterogeneous flow field.
Numerical simulations indicate that the correlation of the heterogeneous flow field depends on the correlations of the underlying pore space. Further, a generalized Pareto distribution can be used to approximate the positive streamwise velocity distribution.
GERC director, Dr Matthew Hall and the lead for the GERC Doctoral Centre, Prof. Sean Rigby are both co-authors on the paper.
Jin, C, Langston, P.A., Pavlovskaya, G.E., Hall, M.R., and Rigby, S.R. 2016. Statistics of highly heterogeneous flow fields confined to three-dimensional random porous media. Physical Review E [online]. 93(1), pp. 1-10.
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