Stefano Favretto

TL;DR: The size distribution of disconnected nonwetting phase clusters (ganglia) is determined, implying that clusters of all sizes provide a huge surface area for geochemical reactions and dissolution while allowing mobilization of the residual phase during improved oil recovery in hydrocarbon reservoirs and carbon dioxide storage in aquifers.

TL;DR: The Pore3D software library developed by the SYRMEP research group of the Elettra Synchrotron Light Laboratory in Trieste (Italy) is presented and consists of several state-of-the-art functions and procedures for performing filtering, segmentation and quantitative analysis of 3D images.

TL;DR: In this article, a series of X-ray tomographic experiments and lattice Boltzmann permeability simulations on pyroclastic products from explosive activity at Stromboli between December 2004 and May 2006 were performed to investigate the relationship between the nature of vesiculation in erupted products and the dynamics of gas transport in the shallow conduit in order to derive implications for the eruptive behavior of basaltic volcanoes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and applied a strategy for estimating the full tensor of hydraulic permeability of porous media, without any a priori assumption on the principal directions.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the dynamics of explosive activity at Mt. Etna between 31 August and 15 December 2006 by combining vesicle studies in erupted products with measurements of the gas composition at the active, summit crater.