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Porous medium

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Control of Dissipation Sources: A Central Aspect for Enhancing the Mechanical and Mechanobiological Performances of Hydrogels

Dominique Pioletti, Peyman Karami, Naser Nasrollahzadeh Mamaghani

Development of mechanically durable and biologically inductive hydrogels is a major challenge for load-bearing applications such as engineered cartilage. Dissipative capacity of articular cartilage is central to its functional behavior when submitted to lo ...

2019

Pore space properties in carbonate fault rocks of peninsular Italy

Marie Estelle Solange Violay

The fault cores of extensional faults in Mesozoic limestones and dolostones are examined by mean of combined microstructural, ultrasonic and petrophysical analyses. Grain-supported fault rocks commonly localize in the outer fault cores, whereas matrix-supp ...

2019

Nanoporous Gold as a Highly Selective and Active Carbon Dioxide Reduction Catalyst

Giulia Tagliabue

Electrochemical conversion of CO2 into useful chemicals is a promising approach for transforming CO2 into sustainably produced fuels and/or chemical feedstocks for industrial synthesis. We report that nanoporous gold (np-Au) films, with pore sizes ranging ...

2019

Pressure drop and convective heat transfer in porous ceramic structures fabricated by additive manufacturing

Sophia Haussener, Ehsan Rezaei, Alberto Ortona, Maurizio Barbato

The microstructure of porous materials has a significant effect on their transport properties. Engineered cellular ceramics can be designed to exhibit properties at will, thanks to the advances in additive manufacturing. We investigated the heat and mass t ...

2019

Effective conductivity of porous ceramics in a radiative environment

Sophia Haussener, Clemens Gregor Suter, Jérémy Raphaël Mora-Monteros

The knowledge of the effective thermal conductivity, taking into account conduction and radiation, is crucial for the accurate prediction of the thermal behavior of porous foams, especially in an environment where radiation is dominating. We present a comb ...

2019

Micromechanical controls of mixed-mode anticrack nucleation in porous solids: application to snow failure

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Henning Löwe, Jonas Ritter

Porous cohesive materials can fail and collapse under compressive stresses. This mechanical behavior is generally referred to as anticrack and in snow, it is at the origin of catastrophic avalanches. In this study, we investigate how the microstructure of ...

2019

Multiscale Porosity Microfluidics Model

Jiande Zhou

Create a 3D micromodel (with microfluidics technique) as a representation of complex porous media (mimic groundwater environment); Experimental and numerical study of transport phenomenon in porous media ...

2018

A nodal discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for the poroelastic wave equation

Jan Sickmann Hesthaven, Khemraj Shukla

We use the nodal discontinuous Galerkin method with a Lax-Friedrich flux to model the wave propagation in transversely isotropic and poroelastic media. The effect of dissipation due to global fluid flow causes a stiff relaxation term, which is incorporated ...

2018

Suppression of von Karman vortex streets past porous rectangular cylinders

François Gallaire, Pier Giuseppe Ledda, Francesco Viola, Lorenzo Siconolfi

Although the stability properties of the wake past impervious bluff bodies have been widely examined in the literature, similar analyses regarding the flow around and through porous ones are still lacking. In this work, the effect of the porosity and perme ...

2018

Dynamic anticrack propagation in snow

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume

Continuum numerical modeling of dynamic crack propagation has been a great challenge over the past decade. This is particularly the case for anticracks in porous materials, as reported in sedimentary rocks, deep earthquakes, landslides, and snow avalanches ...

2018

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