Characterization of a porous medium employing numerical tools: Permeability and pressure-drop from Darcy to turbulence

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 52, Issue 25-26, 2009, Pages 5878-5888

  Teruel, Federico E ^a,b   Rizwan Uddin, ^b,c  

^a CENTRO ATÓMICO BARILOCHE   (Argentina)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Darcy Forchheimer; Permeability; Porous media; REV

Indexed keywords

DRAG; LAMINAR FLOW; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VISCOUS FLOW;

2D NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; FORCHHEIMER; LAMINAR FLOW REGIMES; MACROSCOPIC PARAMETERS; MODERATE REYNOLDS NUMBERS; PERMEABILITY OF THE POROUS MEDIUMS; REPRESENTATIVE ELEMENTARY VOLUME; REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 71549137778     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2009.07.017     Document Type: Article

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