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....

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Main Authors:	Bear, Jacob (Author), Bachmat, Yehuda (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1990
Series:	Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media 4
Subjects:	Earth Sciences Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences Hydrogeology Terrestrial Pollution Civil Engineering Earth sciences Geotechnical engineering Civil engineering Environmental pollution Mathematisches Modell Transportprozess Poröser Stoff Aufsatzsammlung
Online Access:	BTU01 Volltext
Summary:	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
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (XXIV, 554 p)
ISBN:	9789400919266
DOI:	10.1007/978-94-009-1926-6