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A wide range of natural and engineered fluid flows exhibit spatial or temporal viscosity variations, spanning scales from microbial locomotion to planetary mantle convection. These variations introduce qualitatively new physical mechanisms…
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We present pore-scale simulations of two-phase flows in a reconstructed fibrous porous layer. The three dimensional microstructure of the material, a fuel cell gas diffusion layer, is acquired via X-ray computed tomography and used as input…
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We address the description of solutes flow with trapping processes in porous media. Starting from a small-scale model for tracer particles trajectories, we derive the corresponding governing equations for the concentration of the mobile and…
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