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Direct Characterization of Solute Transport in Unsaturated Porous Media Using Fast X-Ray Synchrotron Microtomography

  • September 18, 2020
  • Posted by: M. Sadegh Riasi
  • Category: Research News, Research Spotlight
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Direct characterization of solute transport in unsaturated porous media using fast X-ray synchrotron microtomography

Sharul Hasan, Vahid Niasar, Nikolaos K. Karadimitriou, Jose R. A. Godinho, Nghia T. Vo, Senyou An, Arash Rabbani, Holger Steeb

Solute transport in porous materials is pertinent to many engineering and industrial applications. In a close cooperation, Dr. Vahid Niasar (University of Manchester) and Prof. Holger Steeb (principal investigator in the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1313 and head of research in the Cluster of Excellence SimTech (University of Stuttgart)), their team members and collaborators from Diamond Light Source developed the methodology to investigate spatiotemporal behavior of solute transport in unsaturated porous media using fast high-resolution synchrotron X-ray imaging. With this method they were able to visualize transport processes in a 3D partially-saturated porous medium for the first time.

PNAS 2020, 2011716117
Corresponding author: Vahid Niasar