PMMoTo: A Porous Media Morphology and Topology Toolkit

TL;DR

PMMoTo is a software toolkit that helps researchers analyze the structure of porous materials and understand how these structures affect larger-scale behaviors.

Contribution

PMMoTo introduces a new toolkit for characterizing porous media morphology and topology to improve predictive modeling.

Findings

PMMoTo enables characterization of porous structures to understand emergent behaviors.

The toolkit helps researchers develop more predictive models of porous systems.

Abstract

The Porous Media Morphology and Topology Toolkit (PMMoTo) is a software tool designed to help researchers analyze and understand porous structures and how their features influence behavior at larger scales. A porous medium is any solid material that contains pores, for example, soil, membranes, skin, and many other natural and engineered materials. In fact, porosity is often a function of spatial scale; all materials have some degree of porosity, you just need to zoom in. The morphology (i.e. the shape and structure) and topology (i.e., the connectivity and spatial relations) of a porous structure govern larger-scale behavior. By characterizing these structures, PMMoTo enables researchers to better understand emergent behaviors and develop more predictive models of porous systems.

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