Publisher's Synopsis
Muhammad Sahimi Flow and Transport in Porous Media and Fractured Rock Disordered porous media are encountered in many different branches of science and technology, ranging from agricultural, ceramic, chemical, civil, environmental, and petroleum engineering, to food and soil sciences and powder technology. Over the past few decades porous media have been studied experimentally, theoretically, and by computer simulations, and a deep understanding of them has been gained. Flow and Transport in Porous Media and Fractured Rock discusses experimental, theoretical and computer simulation approaches to studying porous media and fractured rock. It provides an in–depth discussion of the classical theoretical approaches based on the continuum equations of flow and transport, and contrasts them with modern ideas and methods based on percolation and effective–medium theories. renormalization group methods. fractal concepts and large–scale computer simulations. It also provides detailed discussions of fractured rock and flow and transport therein, thus unifying them with the science of porous media.
