Dynamics of fluids in porous media / Jacob Bear

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bear, Jacob.

Series:

Dover Civil and Mechanical Engineering Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fluid dynamics.

Groundwater flow.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1512 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newburyport : Dover Publications, Inc., 1988

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This classic work by one of the world's foremost hydrologists presents a topic encountered in the many fields of science and engineering where flow through porous media plays a fundamental role. It is the standard work in the field, designed primarily for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of ground water hydrology, soil mechanics, soil physics, drainage and irrigation engineering, and petroleum and chemical engineering. It is highly recommended as well for scientists and engineers already working in these fields.Throughout this generously illustrated, richly detailed study, which i

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; 1.1 Aquifers, Ground Water and Oil Reservoirs; 1.1.1 Definitions; 1.1.2 The Moisture Distribution in a Vertical Profile; 1.1.3 Classification of Aquifers; 1.1.4 Properties of Aquifers; 1.1.5 The Oil Reservoir; 1.2 The Porous Medium; 1.3 The Continuum Approach to Porous Media; 1.3.1 The Molecular and Microscopic Levels; 1.3.2 Porosity and Representative Elementary Volume; 1.3.3 Areal and Linear Porosities; 1.3.4 Velocity and Specific Discharge; 1.3.5 Concluding Remarks

CHAPTER 2 Fluids and Porous Matrix Properties2.1 Fluid Density; 2.1.1 Definitions; 2.1.2 Mixture of Fluids; 2.1.3 Measurement of Density; 2.2 Fluid Viscosity; 2.2.1 Definition; 2.2.2 Non-Newtonian Fluids; 2.2.3 Units; 2.2.4 Effect of Pressure and Temperature; 2.2.5 Measurement of Viscosity; 2.3 Fluid Compressibility; 2.4 Statistical Description of Porous Media; 2.4.1 Particle-Size Distribution; 2.4.2 Pore-Size Distribution; 2.4.3 Other Statistical Descriptions; 2.5 Porosity; 2.5.1 Porosity and Effective Porosity; 2.5.2 Porosity, Structure and Packing; 2.5.3 Porosity Measurement

2.6 Specific Surface2.6.1 Definitions; 2.6.2 Measurement of Specific Surface; 2.7 Matrix and Medium Compressibility; CHAPTER 3 Pressure and Piezometric Head; 3.1 Stress at a Point; 3.2 Hydrostatic Pressure Distribution; 3.3 Piezometric Head; CHAPTER 4 The Fundamental Fluid Transport Equations in Porous Media; 4.1 Particles, Velocities and Fluxes in a Fluid Continuum; 4.1.1 Definitions of Particles and Velocities; 4.1.2 Diffusive Velocities and Fluxes; 4.1.3 The Eulerian and Lagrangian Points of View; 4.1.4 The Substantial Derivative; 4.2 The General Conservation Principle

4.3 Equations of Mass, Momentum and Energy Conservation in a Fluid Continuum4.3.1 Mass Conservation of a Species; 4.3.2 Mass Conservation of a Fluid System; 4.3.3 Conservation of Linear Momentum of a Species α; 4.3.4 Conservation of Linear Momentum of a Fluid System; 4.4 Constitutive Assumptions and Coupled Processes; 4.4.1 General Considerations; 4.4.2 Principles to be Used in Forming Constitutive Equations; 4.4.3 Coupled Processes; 4.5 A Porous Medium Model; 4.5.1 The Conceptual Model Approach; 4.5.2 A Model of Flow Through a Porous Medium; 4.5.3 Frames of Reference

4.5.4 An Averaging Procedure4.6 Equations of Volume and Mass Conservation; 4.6.1 Equation of Volume Conservation; 4.6.2 Equation of Mass Conservation of a Species in Solution; 4.6.3 Equation of Mass Conservation; 4.7 Equation of Motion; 4.8 Tortuosity and Permeability; 4.8.1 Relationship Between Tortuosity and Permeability; 4.8.2 Tortuosity and Other Transport Coefficients; 4.8.3 Formation Factor and Resistivity Index (Amyx 1960) in Reservoir Engineering; CHAPTER 5 The Equation of Motion of a Homogeneous Fluid; 5.1 The Experimental Law of Darcy; 5.2 Generalization of Darcy's Law

5.2.1 Isotropic Medium

Notes:

This Dover edition, first published in 1988, is an unabridged, corrected republication of the work first published by the American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1972, in its Environmental Science Series

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780486131801

0486131807

9781621986393

162198639X

OCLC:

868271872