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Investigating the elegance of empty space

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A recent study presents an approach for characterizing and quantifying the pore space in assemblies of particles, enabling research into pore-scale flow physics and insight into the interplay between the solid and void phases in granular materials.

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Fig. 1: The centerlines of pore space in 2D compared to traditional particle-centric tessellations.

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Evans, T.M. Investigating the elegance of empty space. Nat Comput Sci 3, 916–917 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-023-00554-8

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