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Irrespective of the type of the solid matrix shaping a porous medium, the interconnected voids appear as highly complex and tortuous paths. Here, we visualize the velocity field of a fluid flowing from left to right through such a tortuous path within a digital model of a thin layer of porous media.
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Matyka, M., Koza, Z., Khalili, A. (2023). Tortuosity of the Flow in Porous Media. In: Médici, E.F., Otero, A.D. (eds) Album of Porous Media. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23800-0_108
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