Nai-Qian Zhang

Capillary Wicking and Permeability in Random Particulate Porous Media: A Physically Scaled Pore-Scale Simulation

Random particulate porous media are widely used as capillary wicks in heat pipes and vapor chambers, where fluid transport is governed by the permeability and capillary wicking dynamics. In this work, we perform three-dimensional (3D) lattice Boltzmann simulations to investigate microstructure-regulated permeability...