A pore-scale numerical model for flow through porous media

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 881-904

  Zhu, Y I ^a   Fox, Patrick J ^a   Morris, Joseph P ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Darcy's law; Flow through porous media; Hydraulic conductivity; Numerical modelling; Smoothed particle hydrodynamics

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EQUATIONS OF STATE OF LIQUIDS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

DARCY'S LAW; SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS (SPH);

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

FLUID FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM;

FLUID FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 0033543194     PISSN: 03639061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9853(19990810)23:9<881::AID-NAG996>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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