Estimates of effective permeability for non-Newtonian fluid flow in randomly heterogeneous porous media

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1067-1076

  Di Federico, Vittorio ^a   Pinelli, Marco ^a   Ugarelli, Rita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Non Newtonian; Porous media; Power law fluid

Indexed keywords

DARCY'S LAW; EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITY; ERGODIC HYPOTHESIS; FIELD SCALE; FLOW BEHAVIOR INDEX; FLOW GEOMETRIES; FLOW LAW; GAUSSIAN RANDOM FIELDS; GEOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; HETEROGENEITY; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; LOW FLOW; NATURAL LOGARITHMS; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NON-NEWTONIAN; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID FLOW; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; PERMEABILITY COEFFICIENTS; POROUS DOMAIN; POROUS MEDIA; POROUS-MEDIA FLOW; POWER LAW FLUID; SHEAR THINNING FLUIDS; STANDARD FORM; VISCOUS POWER;

ALGEBRA; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; PARALLEL FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS; RHEOLOGY; SEEPAGE; VISCOUS FLOW;

NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

DARCY LAW; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOW MODELING; FLUID FLOW; GAUSSIAN METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER LAW; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

EID: 78349301249     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: 14363259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-010-0397-9     Document Type: Article

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