Site-Bond Network Modeling of Disordered Porous Media

CORDERO, S.; KORNHAUSER, ISAAC; DOMINGUEZ, A.; FELIPE, C.; ESPARZA, J.M.; ROJAS, FERNANDO; LÓPEZ, R.H.; VIDALES, A M; RICCARDO, JL; ZGRABLICH, GIORGIO

Particle & Particle Systems Characterization

WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA,

Lugar: Weinheim; Año: 2004 vol. 21 p. 101 - 116

0934-0866

The description of disordered porous media through the Dual Site-Bond Model (DSBM) is reviewed and updated with the inclusion of new results. After a brief discussion of the DSBM, the percolation properties of networks are studied. These present novel features with respect to classical percolation in non-correlated networks. These properties are then used in discussing different processes in disordered porous media, namely, invasion percolation and adsorption-desorption hysteresis. Finally, a method for the characterization of pore size distributions from experimental adsorption-desorption isotherms is proposed.