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Microstructure analysis of reconstructed p orous media B Biswal 1;2 and R Hilfer 1 1 ICA Universitat Stuttgart Pfaenwaldring Stuttgart 2 Department of Physics Electronics Sri Venkateswara Col lege University of Delhi New Delhi Abstract We compare the quantitative microstructural prop erties of Berea Sandstone with sto chastic reconstructions of the same sandstone The comparison is based on lo cal p orosity theory The reconstructions employ Fourier space ltering of Gaussian random elds and match the average p orosity and twop oint correlation function of the exp erimental mo del Connectivity prop erties of the sto chastic mo dels dier sig nicantly from the exp erimental mo del Reconstruction mo dels with dierent levels of coarse graining also show dierent average lo cal connectivity Recently a numb er of sto chastic mo dels have b een prop osed for reconstruc tion of the microstructure of p orous mediasee and references therein To assess the quality of the reconstruction it is neccessary to have quantitative metho ds of comparison for such microstructures General geometric character ization metho ds normally include p orosities sp ecic surface areas and correla tion functions Here we follow a more general quantitative characterization for sto chastic microstructures which is based on lo cal p orosity theory LPT Our analysis allows to distinguish quantitatively b etween three dierent microstructures all of which have identical p orosities and correlation functions The three microstructures are an exp erimental sample of Berea Sandstone ob tained by computerized microtomography and two sto chastic mo dels of the same sandstone obtained through Gauss