Towards a new method of porosimetry: principles and experiments

Antonio Rodriguez de Castro (1) , Azita Ahmadi-Sénichault (1) , Denis Bruneau (1) , Aziz Omari (1)

1 I2M - Institut de Mécanique et d'Ingénierie de Bordeaux

Current experimental methods used to determine pore size distributions (PSD) in porous media present several drawbacks such as toxicity of employed fluids (e.g. mercury porosimetry). Theoretical basis of a new method to obtain the PSD of porous media has been proposed in the literature [1, 2] ...

Mots clés: Porosimetry; Yield stress fluid; laboratory experiments; Pore size distribution; Porous media

Domaines: Mécanique des fluides [physics.class-ph]

Antonio Rodriguez de Castro, Azita Ahmadi-Sénichault, Denis Bruneau, Aziz Omari. Towards a new method of porosimetry: principles and experiments. Conference on Porous Media, May 2013, Prague, Czech Republic. 2p. ⟨hal-01174691⟩