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Slow flow of a single fluid through a porous medium is well understood on a macroscopic level through Darcy's law, a linear relation between flow rate and a combination of pressure differences, viscosity, and gravitational forces. Two-phase…
In this work, we study non-Newtonian fluid flow in heterogeneous porous media. We are interested in fluids presenting a specific change in rheology: Newtonian below a certain shear rate and power law above. Since porous media generally…
In this paper, we extend the Darcy law for micropolar fluid flow in a thin porous medium. This provides a framework for understanding how a fluid's microstructural properties, the geometry of the porous medium and the thickness of the…
We perform linear and nonlinear stability analysis for thermal convection in a fluid overlying a saturated porous medium. We use a coupled system, with the Navier-Stokes equations and Darcy's equation governing the free-flow and the porous…
Understanding the flow of yield stress fluids in porous media is a major challenge. In particular, experiments and extensive numerical simulations report a non-linear Darcy law as a function of the pressure gradient. In this letter, we…
In this paper we study stationary incompressible Newtonian fluid flow in a thin porous media. The media under consideration is a bounded perforated $3D$ domain confined between two parallel plates. The description of the domain includes two…
We demonstrate through numerical simulations and a mean field calculation that immiscible two-phase flow in a porous medium behaves effectively as a Bingham viscoplastic fluid. This leads to a generalized Darcy equation where the volumetric…
Although the stability properties of the wake past impervious bluff bodies have been widely examined in the literature, similar analyses regarding the flow around and through porous ones are still lacking. In this work, the effect of the…
We perform direct numerical simulations of turbulent flow at friction Reynolds number $Re_\tau \approx 500-2000$ grazing over perforates plates with moderate viscous-scaled orifice diameter $d^+\approx40$--$160$ and analyse the relation…
The hydrodynamic instabilities of propagating interfaces in Hele-Shaw channels or porous media under the influence of an imposed flow and gravitational acceleration are investigated within the framework of Darcy's law. The stability…
Based on the phenomenological extension of Darcy's law, two-fluid flow is dependent on a relative permeability function of saturation only that is process/path dependent with an underlying dependency on pore structure. For applications,…
We study the effect of the Reynolds number on the flow of a generalized Newtonian fluid through a thin porous medium in $\mathbb{R}^3$. This medium is a domain of thickness $\varepsilon \ll 1$, perforated by periodically distributed solid…
In low-permeability porous media, the velocity of a fluid flow exhibits a nonlinear dependence on the imposed pressure gradient. This non-Darcian flow behavior has important implications to geological disposal of nuclear waste, hydrocarbon…
We provide an analytical solution to examine the impact of steady and pulsatile flow in a symmetric wavy channel filled with an anisotropic porous medium. The flow inside the wavy channel with a porous substrate is governed by the…
The central problem in the physics of immiscible two-phase flow in porous media is to find a proper description of the flow at scales large enough so that the medium may be regarded as a continuum: the scale-up problem. So far, the only…
We report the results of a study of multiphase flow in porous media. A Darcy's law for steady multiphase flow was investigated for both binary and ternary amphiphilic flow. Linear flux-forcing relationships satisfying Onsager reciprocity…
Darcy's law and the Brinkman equation are two main models used for creeping fluid flows inside moving permeable particles. For these two models, the time derivative and the nonlinear convective terms of fluid velocity are neglected in the…
The lattice Boltzmann method has been successfully applied for the simulation of flow through porous media in the creeping regime. Its technical properties, namely discretization, straightforward implementation and parallelization, are…
The path integral for classical statistical dynamics is used to determine the properties of one-dimensional Darcy flow through a porous medium with a correlated stochastic permeability for several spatial correlation lengths. Pressure…
The pressure and flow statistics of Darcy flow through a random permeable medium are expressed in a form suitable for evaluation by the method of simulated annealing. There are several attractive aspects to using simulated annealing: (i)…