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JOURNAL OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID MECHANICS
Volume 102, Issue 2, Pages 447-473Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0257(01)00191-4
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Darcy viscosity; Newtonian fluids; transport parameter
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This article first provides a brief and simple account of continuum models for transport in porous media, and of the role of length scales in passing from pore-scale phenomena to Darcy continuum scale representations using averaged variables. It then examines the influence of non-Newtonian rheology on the single- and multi-phase transport parameters, i.e. Darcy viscosity, dispersion lengths and relative permeabilities. The aim is to deduce functional forms and values for these parameters given the rheological properties of the fluid or fluids in question, and the porosity, permeability, dispersion lengths and relative permeabilities (based on Newtonian fluids and equivalent capillary pressures) of the porous medium. It is concluded that micro-models, typically composed of capillary networks, applied at a sub-Darcy-scale, parameterised using data for flows of a well-characterised set of non-Newtonian fluids, are likely to provide the most reliable means. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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