Pore-Scale Modeling of Viscous Flow and Induced Forces in Dense Sphere Packings

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 473-493

  Chareyre, Bruno ^a   Cortis, Andrea ^b   Catalano, Emanuele ^a   Barthélemy, Eric ^a  

^a LEGI   (France)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite volumes; Granular material; Pore network; Solid fluid coupling; Viscous flow

Indexed keywords

DELAUNAY TRIANGULATION; EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITY; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; FINITE VOLUME; FLOW EQUATIONS; INCOMPRESSIBLE VISCOUS FLOWS; NUMERICAL SCHEME; PORE-NETWORK; PORE-SCALE MODELING; SOLID FLUID COUPLING; SOLID PARTICLES; SPHERE PACKINGS; STOKES EQUATIONS; UPSCALING;

GRANULAR MATERIALS; PACKING; POLYDISPERSITY;

VISCOUS FLOW;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW MODELING; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; STOKES FORMULA; THEORETICAL STUDY; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 84857782230     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-011-9915-6     Document Type: Article

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