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Book of Abstract:
“Flow and transport in porous media with applications”
- Prof. K. Muralidhar
Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; Kanpur 208106
Abstract:
Flow, heat, and mass transfer in porous media are encountered in a great many fields of engineering: civil, chemical, mechanical and petroleum, to name a few. A wide variety of flow patterns can be realized in the porous medium. These are controlled by the flow regime - for example, steady or unsteady, laminar
- r turbulent, fluid interfaces in multi-phase flow, non-equilibrium phenomena in the transported variables
such as pressure, temperature and concentration, chemical reactions, and phase change. Additionally, it is well-established that flow patterns and transport depend intricately on the variability of the pore space and the solid matrix. Strategies employed for studying transport phenomena in a non-uniform porous medium include the following:
- 1. Formulate the governing equations for an inhomogeneous, anisotropic region. Properties such as
permeability and dispersion are interpreted here as second order tensors that have built-in dependence on spatial location.
- 2. Permeability and dispersion are treated as random variables with a well-defined average that can