Introduction to Modeling of Transport Phenomena in Porous Media / Edition 1

by Jacob Bear, Y. Bachmat

Overview

The main purpose of this book is to provide the theoretical background to engineers and scientists engaged in modeling transport phenomena in porous media, in connection with various engineering projects, and to serve as a text for senior and graduate courses on transport phenomena in porous media. Such courses are taught in various disciplines, e. g. , civil engineering, chemical engineering, reservoir engineering, agricultural engineering and soil science. In these disciplines, problems are encountered in which various extensive quantities, e. g. , mass and heat, are transported through a porous material domain. Often the porous material contains several fluid phases, and the various extensive quantities are transported simultaneously throughout the multiphase system. In all these disciplines, management decisions related to a system's development and its operation have to be made. To do so, the 'manager', or the planner, needs a tool that will enable him to forecast the response of the system to the implementation of proposed management schemes. This forecast takes the form of spatial and temporal distributions of variables that describe the future state of the considered system. Pressure, stress, strain, density, velocity, solute concentration, temperature, etc. , for each phase in the system, and sometime for a component of a phase, may serve as examples of state variables. The tool that enables the required predictions is the model. A model may be defined as a simplified version of the real (porous medium) system that approximately simulates the excitation-response relations of the latter.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792311065
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	05/31/1991
Series:	Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media , #4
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
Pages:	554
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

A General Theory.- 1 The Porous Medium.- 2 Macroscopic Description of Transport Phenomena in Porous Media.- 3 Mathematical Statement of a Transport Problem.- B Application.- 4 Mass Transport of a Single Fluid Phase Under Isothermal Conditions.- 5 Mass Transport of Multiple Fluid Phases Under Isothermal Conditions.- 6 Transport of a Component in a Fluid Phase Under Isothermal Conditions.- 7 Heat and Mass Transport.- 8 Hydraulic Approach to Transport in Aquifers.- References.- Problems.

Editorial Reviews

Provides theoretical background for engineers and scientists engaged in modeling transport phenomena in porous media in connection with various engineering projects, and can serve as a text for senior and graduate courses. Systematically presents a methodology for constructing mathematical models on the basis of the continuum approach, applicable to problems such as water flow and transport of pollutants in aquifers and in the unsaturated zone; flow of oil, water, and gas in petroleum reservoirs; radioactive waste disposal in deep geological formations; heat storage in aquifers; and solute transport in reactors in the chemical industry. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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