TauFactor: An open-source application for calculating tortuosity factors from tomographic data
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Author(s)
Cooper, SJ
Bertei, A
Shearing, PR
Kilner, JA
Brandon, NP
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
TauFactor is a MatLab application for efficiently calculating the tortuosity factor, as well as volume fractions, surface areas and triple phase boundary densities, from image based microstructural data. The tortuosity factor quantifies the apparent decrease in diffusive transport resulting from convolutions of the flow paths through porous media. TauFactor was originally developed to improve the understanding of electrode microstructures for batteries and fuel cells; however, the tortuosity factor has been of interest to a wide range of disciplines for over a century, including geoscience, biology and optics. It is still common practice to use correlations, such as that developed by Bruggeman, to approximate the tortuosity factor, but in recent years the increasing availability of 3D imaging techniques has spurred interest in calculating this quantity more directly. This tool provides a fast and accurate computational platform applicable to the big datasets (>10^8 voxels) typical of modern tomography, without requiring high computational power.
Date Issued
2016-10-18
Date Acceptance
2016-09-19
Citation
SoftwareX, 2016, 5, pp.203-210
ISSN
2352-7110
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
203
End Page
210
Journal / Book Title
SoftwareX
Volume
5
Copyright Statement
©2016 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
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Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Commission of the European Communities
Grant Number
EP/J016454/1
EP/J016454/1
EP/M014045/1
EP/M02346X/1
654915
Subjects
Tortuosity Factor
Di ffusion
Microstructure
Tomography
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2016-10-18