Porous media
- Waterloo Univ., ON (Canada). Dept. of Chemical Engineering
The unique property of a porous medium, the one that distinguishes it from other solid bodies on the one hand and from simple conduits on the other, is its complicated pore structure. Fluid flow, diffusion, and electrical conduction in porous media take place within extremely complicated microscopic boundaries that in the past made a rigorous solution of the equations of change in the capillary network practically impossible. The past state of affairs is one of the reasons why some of the brilliant and successful practitioners in the field of flow through porous media have tried, as much as possible, to stick with the continuum approach in which no attention is paid to pores or pore structure. Another reason is that the continuum approach is often adequate for the phenomenological description of macroscopic transport processes in porous media. This book has been written with the primary purpose of presenting in an organized manner the most pertinent information available on the role of pore structure and then putting it to use in the interpretation of experimental data and the results of model calculations.
- OSTI ID:
- 7151716
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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