@Article{fdmp.2009.005.161,
AUTHOR = {M.R.  Arab, E.  Semma, B.  Pateyron, M. El  Ganaoui},
TITLE = {Determination of Physical Properties of Porous Materials by a Lattice Boltzmann Approach},
JOURNAL = {Fluid Dynamics \& Materials Processing},
VOLUME = {5},
YEAR = {2009},
NUMBER = {2},
PAGES = {161--176},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/fdmp/v5n2/24439},
ISSN = {1555-2578},
ABSTRACT = {In this work, flows in porous media are simulated by using a Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM). A model D2Q9 with a single collision operator is proposed. This method is applied on 2D digital images obtained by a Scanning Electron Microscope technique (SEM), and followed by a special treatment in order to obtain an image of synthesis that is finally read by the numerical code. The first results tested on two-dimensional configurations show the reliability of this strategy in simulating with a good accuracy phenomena of heat and mass transport. The numerical study is extended to the prediction of physical parameters that characterize a porous material (in particular, permeability that can be hardly estimated experimentally).},
DOI = {10.3970/fdmp.2009.005.161}
}