Modelling and Analysis of Particle and Pore Structures in Soils
Tobias Mehlhorn, Steffen Prohaska, Ulrike Homberg, Volker Slowik · 2009
This work presents a numerical model of an idealised grain structure consisting of spheres and a method to derive the geometric characterization of the corresponding pore space. Two different starting points exist for obtaining the pore structure. Real grain structures can be obtained via computed tomography followed by image processing. Idealised grain structures, consisting of spheres, can be numerically modelled. In this paper we first concentrate on modelling, then we present a definition of pore space usable for idealised structures, but also extensible to real grain structures.