Basic studies of transport processes in porous media

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:5874781

Catton, I

Many geological, biological or man made systems involve transport of mass and energy through fluid saturated porous matrices. The study of convective transport through porous media has attracted the attention of a large number of researchers for many reasons: (1) direct application to processes and energy conversion/storage systems, (2) understanding the more complex multi-phase flows, (3) analogies and similarities with convection of Newtonian fluids, or (4) for its own right, i.e. modeling of a fundamental phenomenon. The focus of contemporary research is somewhere inside the four corners mentioned above but not on its periphery. The present work will focus on (4), i.e. its mission is to construct a model or models which describe convective transport processes through porous media. The following review will reflect this focus by being limited to more basic works.

• Research Organization: California Univ., Los Angeles, CA (United States). School of Engineering and Applied Science
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AS03-82ER12021
• OSTI ID: 5874781
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/12021-T1; ON: DE92007284
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
POROUS MATERIALS
CONVECTION
HEAT TRANSFER
MASS TRANSFER
MICROSTRUCTURE
NATURAL CONVECTION
PERMEABILITY
POROSITY
PROGRESS REPORT
TWO-PHASE FLOW
USES
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE
DOCUMENT TYPES
ENERGY TRANSFER
FLUID FLOW
MATERIALS
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665000 - Physics of Condensed Matter- (1992-)