You are invited to attend Ricky Fan's MASc Oral Exam where he will discuss his thesis on Defining and Validating Convergence Criteria for the Determination of Representative Elementary Volume in Porous Media.
Abstract:
The representative elementary volume (REV) is a fundamental concept in the study of porous media, describing the minimum volume at which a material property can be considered statistically representative of the whole.
Determining an REV is essential for linking pore-scale measurements to continuum-scale models used in engineering and geoscience. The results of this work demonstrate that REVs can be identified from relatively small fractions of the total image volume given that certain conditions are met, offering a balance between accuracy and computational efficiency.
Supervisor: Jeff Gostick