We developed a novel method for fabrication of glass micromodels with varying depth (2.5-D) with no additional complexity over the 2-D micromodels' fabrication. Compared to a 2-D micromodel, the 2.5-D micromodel can better represent the 3-D features of multi-phase flow in real porous media, as demonstrated in this paper with three different examples. Physically realistic capillary snap-off and ...

The main purpose of the research was to develop the micromodel of biocompatible titanium nitride nanocoating deposited on polymer by pulsed laser deposition method in blood chambers of Polish ventricular assist devices: POLVAD and POLVAD_EXT. The analysis of the parameters of micromodel crucial for the phenomenon of loss of cohesion occurring between coating and substrate was carried out as wel...

We report optical observations of the dissolution behaviour of glycerol/water, soybean oil/hexane, and isobutyric acid (IBA)/water binary mixtures within a glass micromodel built as a 2D regular network of capillary tubes with diameter of 0.2 mm. The micromodel is initially filled with solute and then is horizontally immersed into a thermostatic solvent-filled bath. The micromodel is open at it...

Colloid attachment is an important retention mechanism. It is influenced by colloid size, pore size, and flow rate, among other factors. In this work, we studied colloid attachment experimentally under various flow rates, as well as colloid release in response to a rapid change of flow rate. Colloid transport experiments under saturated conditions and with different flow rates were conducted in...

A method of rotation-invariant texture classification based on a complete space-frequency model is introduced. A polar, analytic form of a two-dimensional (2-D) Gabor wavelet is developed, and a multiresolution family of these wavelets is used to compute information-conserving microfeatures. From these microfeatures a micromodel, which characterizes spatially localized amplitude, frequency, and...

The purpose of the present work was to construct the multiscale FEM model of artificial heart chamber composed of nanocoatings. This goal is reached by the development of the FEM macromodel of artificial blood chamber using the commercial code and by the creation of the micromodel based on our own FEM code. The latter uses strain state obtained after loading in macromodel. The loci of failure i...

Abstract Solute transport under single-phase flow conditions in porous micromodels was studied using high-resolution optical imaging. Experiments examined loading (injection of ink-water solution into a clear water-filled micromodel) and unloading water an filled micromodel). Statistically homogeneous fine-coarse patterns were used. It is shown that the time scale during larger than loading, ev...

Nanoand microparticle tracers are expected to be used for evaluating structures in geological developments, however their transport behavior is not well characterized. This study investigated nanoparticle transport in a fractured medium through a microscope. A single fracture and rock matrix (grain and pore space) were fabricated on a silicon wafer, which is called a micromodel. Water and nanop...

Knowledge of bacterial transport through, and biofilm growth in, porous media is vitally important in numerous natural and engineered environments. Despite this, porous media systems are generally oversimplified and the local complexity of cell transport, biofilm formation and the effect of biofilm accumulation on flow patterns is lost. In this study, cells of the sulphate-reducing bacterium, D...

Characterization of the epigenetic profile of humans since the initial breakthrough on the human genome project has strongly established the key role of histone modifications and DNA methylation. These dynamic elements interact to determine the normal level of expression or methylation status of the constituent genes in the genome. Recently, considerable evidence has been put forward to demonst...