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

Figure 7

Unit cell for staggered-array of uniform shapes (i.e., squares), represented by cells with periodic boundaries and porosity . For all staggered-array examples: and (refer to Figure 8 for dimension details).

(a) = 0.36

(b) = 0.64

(c) = 0.84