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Fluid and flow problems in porous media have attracted the attention of industrialists, engineers and scientists from varying disciplines, such as chemical, environmental, and mechanical engineering, geothermal physics and food science. There has been a increasing interest in heat and fluid flows through porous media, making this book a timely and appropriate resource.Each chapter is systematically detailed to be easily grasped by a research worker with basic knowledge of fluid mechanics, heat transfer and computational and experimental methods. At the same time, the readers will be in

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Over the last decade and particularly in recent years, the macroscopic porous media theory has made decisive progress concerning the fundamentals of the theory and the development of mathematical models in various fields of engineering and biomechanics. This progress has attracted some attention, and therefore conferences devoted almost exclusively to the macrosopic porous media theory have been organized in order to collect all findings, to present new results, and to discuss new trends. Many important contributions have also been published in national and international journals, which have brought the porous media theory, in some parts, to a close. Therefore, the time seems to be ripe to review the state of the art and to show new trends in the continuum mechanical treatment of saturated and unsaturated capillary and non-capillary porous solids. This book addresses postgraduate students and scientists working in engineering, physics, and mathematics. It provides an outline of modern theory of porous media and shows some trends in theory and in applications.

Porous materials --- Continuum mechanics. --- Transport properties. --- Mechanical properties. --- Porous media --- Materials --- Porosity --- Mechanics of continua --- Elasticity --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Field theory (Physics) --- Hydraulic engineering. --- Materials. --- Geography. --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical. --- Hydrogeology. --- Materials Science, general. --- Hydrology/Water Resources. --- Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. --- Earth Sciences, general. --- Mathematical Logic and Foundations. --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Engineering --- Engineering materials --- Industrial materials --- Engineering design --- Manufacturing processes --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Algebra of logic --- Logic, Universal --- Mathematical logic --- Symbolic and mathematical logic --- Symbolic logic --- Mathematics --- Algebra, Abstract --- Metamathematics --- Set theory --- Syllogism --- Materials science. --- Hydrology. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Earth sciences. --- Mathematical logic. --- Geosciences --- Environmental sciences --- Physical sciences --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology --- Aquatic sciences --- Hydrography --- Water --- Material science --- Geohydrology --- Geology --- Hydrology --- Groundwater

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The present monograph presents, for the first time, a unified and comprehensive introduction to some of the basic transport properties of porous media, such as electrical and hydraulic conductivity, air permeability and diffusion. The treatment is based on critical path analysis and the scaling of transport properties which are individually described as functions of saturation. At the same time, the book supplies a tutorial on percolation theory for hydrologists, providing them with the tools for solving actual problems. In turn, a separate chapter serves to introduce physicists to some of the language and complications of groundwater hydrology necessary for successful modelling.

Porous materials --- Percolation (Statistical physics) --- Critical path analysis. --- Matériaux poreux --- Percolation (Physique statistique) --- Méthode du chemin critique --- Transport properties. --- Propriétés de transport --- Hydraulic engineering. --- Physics. --- Statistical physics. --- Thermodynamics. --- Engineering. --- Geosciences. --- Hydrogeology. --- Statistical Physics. --- Complexity. --- Mechanics, Fluids, Thermodynamics. --- Math. Applications in Geosciences. --- Critical path analysis --- Atomic Physics --- Physical Geography --- Physics --- Geography --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Transport properties --- CPM (Network analysis) --- Critical path method --- Path analysis, Critical --- Porous media --- Construction --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Statistical methods --- Earth sciences. --- Hydrology. --- Continuum physics. --- Dynamical systems. --- Earth Sciences. --- Hydrology/Water Resources. --- Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity. --- Classical Continuum Physics. --- Earth Sciences, general. --- Geography. --- Complex Systems. --- Classical and Continuum Physics. --- Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems. --- Mathematical statistics --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Engineering --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Geosciences --- Environmental sciences --- Physical sciences --- Classical field theory --- Continuum physics --- Continuum mechanics --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mathematics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Mechanics --- Statics --- Aquatic sciences --- Hydrography --- Water --- Geohydrology --- Geology --- Hydrology --- Groundwater --- Dynamics. --- Field theory (Physics)

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Poromechanics is the mechanics of porous materials and is now a well established field in many engineering disciplines, ranging from Civil Engineering, Geophysics, Petroleum Engineering to Bioengineering. However, a rigorous approach that links the physics of the phenomena at stake in porous materials and the macroscopic behaviour is still missing. This book presents such an approach by means of homogenization techniques. Rigorously founded in various theories of micromechanics, these up scaling techniques are developed for the homogenization of transport properties, stiffness and strength properties of porous materials. The special feature of this book is the balance between theory and application, providing the reader with a comprehensive introduction to state-of-the-art homogenization theories and applications to a large range of real life porous materials: concrete, rocks, shales, bones, etc.

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