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TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA
Volume 41, Issue 3, Pages 305-323Publisher
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006695206975
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irreversible thermodynamics; permeability; transport coefficients; linearization; averaging
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We prove the fundamental theorem about factorization of the phenomenological coefficients for transport in macroporous media. By factorization we mean the representation of the transport coefficients as products of geometric parameters of the porous medium and the parameters characteristic of the multicomponent fluid saturating the porous space. The two permeabilities of the porous medium, the convective and the diffusional ones, are separated. A similarity between the diffusional permeability and the porosity-tortuosity factor of the Kozeny-Carman theory is demonstrated. We do not make any specific assumption about stochastic or deterministic structure of the porous medium. The fluxes in fluid on the pore level are described by general relations of the non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
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