Computing and Comparing Effective Properties for Flow and Transport in Computer-Generated Porous Media

Table 2

Past work on hydraulic tortuosity.

Study	Samples considered	Tortuosity–porosity fit	Notes
[54]	Packed beds		is function of particle shape
[19]	2D random overlapping monosized squares,
[26]	2D random overlapping monosized squares,		is critical porosity
[24]	2D random overlapping monosized squares		is hydraulic radius, is specific surface area
[13]	2D freely overlapping squares