Interfacial area measurements for unsaturated flow through a porous medium

By K. Culligan, D. Wildenschild, B. Christensen, William G. Gray, Mark Rivers, A. Tompson. 2004

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Subfields: Computational Mechanics, Environmental Engineering, Ocean Engineering

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Image analysis algorithms for estimating porous media multiphase flow variables from computed microtomography data: a validation study (2010, methodology): “PMMC [30] estimates were also included in the comparison as well as estimates obtained using the method of Culligan et al. [15, 16 ].”
Non-equilibrium effects in capillarity and interfacial area in two-phase flow: dynamic pore-network modelling (2010, background): “…ways of measuring specific interfacial area (see e.g. Brusseau, Popovicova & Silva 1997; Costanza-Robinson & Brusseau 2002; Cheng et al. 2004; Culligan et al. 2004, 2006; Chen & Kibbey 2006; Brusseau et al. 2006; Chen et al. 2007), there is as yet no experimental (or computational) study of…”
Pore-scale characteristics of multiphase flow in porous media: A comparison of air–water and oil–water experiments (2006, methodology): “[6] used the Advanced Photon Source (APS) to study unsaturated air–water flow through glass beads.”
Microbial distribution in soils: physics and scaling (2008, background): “Adapted from Culligan et al. (2004).”
Image processing of multiphase images obtained via X‐ray microtomography: A review (2014, methodology): “We focus on methods that operate on a single image, i.e., coupled images scanned at different X-ray energy levels [Rogasik et al., 1999; Costanza-Robinson et al., 2008; Armstrong et al., 2012] or in a wet and dry state [Culligan et al., 2004; Wildenschild et al., 2005] are not discussed here.”
Representative elementary volume estimation for porosity, moisture saturation, and air‐water interfacial areas in unsaturated porous media: Data quality implications (2011, background): “…"g criterion implemented here corresponded well to our own visual plateau assessments and to similar literature assessments [e.g., Reeves and Celia, 1996; Clausnitzer and Hopmans, 1999; Zhang et al., 2000; Culligan et al., 2004; Razavi et al., 2007; Narter and Brusseau, 2010; Porter et al., 2010].”
Measurement and prediction of the relationship between capillary pressure, saturation, and interfacial area in a NAPL‐water‐glass bead system (2010, methodology): “The shape and magnitude of the anw − Sw curves are consistent with curves observed in other CMT experiments [Culligan et al., 2004, 2006; Brusseau et al., 2007] and predicted by pore‐scale numerical models [Reeves and Celia, 1996; Held and Celia, 2001; McClure et al., 2004; Joekar‐Niasar et al.,…”