TauFactor swMATH ID: 20631 Software Authors: S.J. Cooper, A. Bertei, P.R. Shearing, J.A. Kilner, N.P. Brandon Description: TauFactor: An open-source application for calculating tortuosity factors from tomographic data. auFactor 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 (>108 voxels) typical of modern tomography, without requiring high computational power. Homepage: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711016300280 Source Code: https://github.com/ElsevierSoftwareX/SOFTX-D-16-00054 Dependencies: Matlab Keywords: SoftwareX; software journal; Tortuosity factor; Diffusion; Microstructure; Tomography; TauFactor; microstructural analysis; Journal of Open Source Software Related Software: PuMA; PoreSpy; DandeLiion; LibTIFF; MicroLib; Matlab; PyTorch; PyBaMM; AMReX; OpenImpala; ParaView; SciPy; NumPy; Python; pytrax; DAKOTA; EJ-HEAT; scikit-image; Fiji; FFTW Cited in: 2 Documents Standard Articles 1 Publication describing the Software Year all top 5 Cited by 8 Authors 1 Cen, Song 1 Cui, Shaoqing 1 Foster, Jamie M. 1 Fu, Jinlong 1 Li, Chenfeng 1 Please, Colin P. 1 Ranom, R. 1 Richardson, Giles W. Cited in 2 Serials 1 Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 1 European Journal of Applied Mathematics Cited in 5 Fields 1 Partial differential equations (35-XX) 1 Computer science (68-XX) 1 Mechanics of deformable solids (74-XX) 1 Fluid mechanics (76-XX) 1 Optics, electromagnetic theory (78-XX) Citations by Year