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Part of the book series: Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media (TATP, volume 4)
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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.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Application
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introduction to Modeling of Transport Phenomena in Porous Media
Authors: Jacob Bear, Yehuda Bachmat
Series Title: Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1926-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands 1990
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0557-6Published: 31 March 1990
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1106-5Published: 31 May 1991
eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1926-6Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0924-6118
Series E-ISSN: 2213-6940
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 554
Topics: Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Hydrogeology, Terrestrial Pollution, Civil Engineering