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New descriptors of connectivity-bottleneck effects improve understanding and prediction of diffusive transport in pore geometries
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Bioeconomy and Health, Food Research and Innovation.
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.
2025 (English)In: Computational materials science, ISSN 0927-0256, E-ISSN 1879-0801, Vol. 256, article id 113942Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Bottlenecks can drastically reduce transport through porous materials. Previous work has concentrated on constriction-bottlenecks caused by variations in pore size. Here we study connectivity-bottlenecks, which are caused by many paths in the pore network passing through the same small part of the material. We develop three new connectivity descriptors, geodesic channel-strength, pore size-channels, and the closed pore-tortuosity that capture these effects. Five sets of computer-generated pore geometries with a wide variation in characteristics were used to evaluate the effect bottlenecks have on diffusive transport. We show that low connectivity as measured by the new bottleneck descriptors, can decrease diffusive transport drastically, but that in these data sets constriction-bottlenecks had a smaller effect. We also show that path-lengths and connectivity-bottlenecks can be highly correlated and adjustments using theoretical models of diffusive transport can help separate the effects. We provide a freely available software MIST that can be used to measure connectivity-bottleneck effects.

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Elsevier B.V. , 2025. Vol. 256, article id 113942
Keywords [en]
Foamed products; Geotextiles; Mesopores; Bottleneck effects; Connectivity-bottleneck effect; Constriction-bottleneck effect; Diffusive transport; Diffusive transport prediction; Geodesic channel; Pore geometry; Pore geometry quantification; Porous medium; Geodesy
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Civil Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-78595DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2025.113942Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105005005641OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-78595DiVA, id: diva2:1968770
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This work is funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF grant AM13-0066), the Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation (KAW grant 20012.0067), and the Swedish Research Council (grant 2016-04187).

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