A voxel-based approach for simulating microbial decomposition in soil: Comparison with LBM and improvement of morphological models.

This paper deals with the computational modeling of biological dynamics in soil using an exact micro-scale pore space description from 3D Computed Tomography (CT) images. Within this context, computational costs and storage requirements constitute critical factors for running simulations on large datasets over extended periods. In this research, we represent the pore space by a graph of voxels (Voxel Graph-Based Approach, VGA) and model transport in fully saturated conditions (two-phase system) using Fick's law and coupled diffusion with biodegradation processes to simulate microbial decomposition in soil.