Acta Stereologica Acta Stereologica -  Volume 17 (1998)  Number 1 - June 1998 

3D morphological analysis of the connectivity of a porous medium

Luc Decker
Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, Ecole des Mines de Paris, 35 rue St-Honoré F77300 Fontainebleau, France
Dominique Jeulin
Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, Ecole des Mines de Paris, 35 rue St-Honoré F77300 Fontainebleau, France
Isabelle Tovena
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Centre de Cadarache, Bât 352 F13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance Cedex, France

Abstract

The connectivity of a complex porous medium is analysed by means of a set of serial sections. From these data, geodesic propagations in different directions provide an estimation of the distribution function of the local tortuosity of shortest paths in the medium while simulations of random walks give estimates of the effective coefficients of diffusion at different scales and of their anisotropy.

Keywords : anisotropy, connectivity, diffusion, geodesic propagation, porous media, simulations, tortuosity

Pour citer cet article

Luc Decker, Dominique Jeulin & Isabelle Tovena, «3D morphological analysis of the connectivity of a porous medium», Acta Stereologica [En ligne], Volume 17 (1998), Number 1 - June 1998, 107-112 URL : https://popups.uliege.be/0351-580x/index.php?id=2537.