Extension of the Darcy-Forchheimer Law for Shear-Thinning Fluids and Validation via Pore-Scale Flow Simulations

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-20

  Tosco, Tiziana ^a   Marchisio, Daniele L ^a   Lince, Federica ^a   Sethi, Rajandrea ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Darcy Forchheimer law; Non Newtonian flow; Pore scale simulations; Shear thinning fluid

Indexed keywords

CARREAU; CRITICAL CONDITION; DARCY-FORCHHEIMER LAW; GROUNDWATER ENGINEERING; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER; HIGH-FLOW RATE; INERTIAL COEFFICIENTS; INERTIAL PARAMETERS; LABORATORY TEST; LOW PERMEABILITY; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; NEWTONIANS; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NON-NEWTONIAN PROPERTY; NON-TRIVIAL; OPERATING CONDITION; PORE-SCALE SIMULATION; POROUS MEDIUM; RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIORS; SHEAR THINNING FLUIDS; SHIFT FACTORS; SINGLE-PHASE FLOW; VISCOUS PROPERTIES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW RATE; FLOW SIMULATION; GROUNDWATER; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR THINNING; VISCOUS FLOW;

NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DARCY LAW; FLUID FLOW; MODEL VALIDATION; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RHEOLOGY; SINGLE-PHASE FLOW;

EID: 84870562743     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-012-0070-5     Document Type: Article

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