A thermodynamic-consistent model describing growth and remodeling phenomena

In the following contribution we present a continuum-mechanical model describing erosion/deposition, growth/atrophy and remodeling phenomena, based on the thermodynamically consistent theory of porous media (TPM). The specific model considered in this paper is based on three constituents, namely an incompressible solid skeleton, a viscous pore fluid and a third constituent containing fluidized particles. The balance equations are formulated in a general setting within the material space. Restrictions on the model with respect to the constitutive equations are obtained by evaluating, the entropy balance following the standard proposal of Coleman and Noll [Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal. 13 (1963) 167]. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.