Summary and Conclusions

Abstract

A short summary is provided for each chapter of the book, which includes a review of theories and a new classification of tortuosity types (chapter 2), a review of empirical data (tortuosity-porosity relationships) from literature (chapter 3), a review of image based methodologies, workflows, and calculation approaches for tortuosity (chapter 4), and a review of quantitative expressions for microstructure—property relationships considering transport in porous media (chapter 5). As a final conclusion, interpretations are given for the three main tortuosity categories: direct geometric, indirect physics-based and mixed tortuosities.