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 Identifiers
Publisher
Springer
ISBN-13
9780792311065
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96290213
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Civil Engineering
Author
Jacob Bear, Y. Bachmat
Publication Name
Introduction to Modeling of Transport Phenomena in Porous Media
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Geology, Science
Publication Year
1991
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
554 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
240mm
Item Width
160mm
Volume
4
Item Weight
1780g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Jacob Bear, Y. Bachmat
Series Title
Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media