Mechanics of Immiscible Fluids in Porous Media

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This publication has been used successfully as a reference book and as a textbook for teaching mechanics of immiscible fluids

Title: Mechanics of Immiscible Fluids in Porous Media
Author: Arthur T. Corey
Specifications: Soft Cover, 272 pp,

ISBN -13: 978-0-918334-83-1
ISBN - 10: 0-918334-83-7

Price: US $54
Cat No: MIFPM

Presentation of basic principles of the mechanics of two-phase fluid systems in soils and porous rocks

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DESCRIPTION

The primary objective of this text is the presentation of basic principlesof the mechanics of two-phase fluid systems in soils and porous rocks. It is not designed as a reference book or as a thorough review of the literature. The scope of the material presented is limited to what can be covered in a one-semester course.

Since publication of the first edition in 1977, pollution of groundwater aquifers by petroleum fluids and other non-aqueous liquids, such as chlorinated hydrocarbons, has become a major concern of investigators both nationally and internationally. Material presented in this text provides necessary background for students interested in the analysis of such problems.

Changes appearing in the third edition are made with the objective of providing a clearer presentation of basic principles. Major changes appear in Chapters 4, 5, and 6, which have been rewritten to provide new material and a more rigorous treatment of the theory for flow of two immiscible fluids.

An effort is made to make the subject of similarity understandable to students, a majority of whom have previously been exposed only briefly to dimensional analysis. The analysis presented in Chapter 6 derives criteria of similarity from equations governing simultaneous flow of two immiscible fluids. This procedure identifies similarity requirements more directly and in a more useful form than is possible from a dimensional analysis considering only the variables involved in two-phase flow. ISBN # 0-918334-83-7. Publ. WRP.

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Chapt. 1: PROPERTIES OF POROUS MEDIA AND IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS

Porous Media
Types and Occurrence
Characterization of Pore Space
Fluids in Porous Media
Capillarity
Problems and Study Questions

Chapt. 2: IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS IN STATIC SYSTEMS

Mechanical Equilibrium
Distribution of Pressure in a Static Two-Phase SystemI
Pressure
Pore-Size Distribution
Distribution of Fluids in Static Systems
Problems and Study Questions

Chapt. 3: EQUATIONS OF FLUID FLUX IN POROUS MEDIA

Fluid Motion
Potentials
Viscous Flow
Hydraulic Radius
Tortuosity
Kozeny-Carman Equation
Permeabity
Darcy Equation
Soil-Water "Diffusion
Measurement of Relative Permeability
Non-Darcy Flow
Potential Flow
Problems and Study Questions

Chapt. 4: STEADY FLOW OF IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS

STEADY FLOW
Steady Flow of a Wetting Fluid
Steady Flow of a Nonwetting Fluid
Steady Flow Toward Parallel Drains
Problems and Study Questions

Chapt. 5: UNSTEADY FLOW OF IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS

Unsteady Flow with Two Fluids
Flow of Water and Air in Soils
Horizontal Linear Imbibition with Nonwetting Phase Resistance
Displacement of Petroleum Fluids
Problems and Study Questions

Chapt. 6: MODEL SIMILARITY

MODELS
Definition of Similarity
Criteria of Similarity
Similarity for Flow of Two Fluids in Porous Media
Problems and Study Questions

REFERENCES

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