Effective hydraulic conductivity and diffusivity of randomly heterogeneous porous solids with compressible constituents

Inhomogeneous fluid-saturated porous materials are often probed with diffusion waves to estimate their effective hydraulic conductivity and diffusivity. Analysis of diffusion wave fields in randomly inhomogeneous poroelastic structures provides new insight into how fluctuations of the compressible c...

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Main Authors: Muller, Tobias, Gurevich, Boris
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2006
Online Access:http://apl.aip.org/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14791
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description Inhomogeneous fluid-saturated porous materials are often probed with diffusion waves to estimate their effective hydraulic conductivity and diffusivity. Analysis of diffusion wave fields in randomly inhomogeneous poroelastic structures provides new insight into how fluctuations of the compressible constituents affect the effective diffusivity. Based on the method of statistical smoothing an effective wave number of the coherent diffusion wave field is computed. From this wave number both an effective hydraulic conductivity and diffusivity are identified. These transport properties are frequency dependent. The correspondence between this conductivity and that estimated from unsteady flow through porous media based on Darcy's law is elucidated. 2006 American Institute of Physics.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-147912017-09-13T16:00:44Z Effective hydraulic conductivity and diffusivity of randomly heterogeneous porous solids with compressible constituents Muller, Tobias Gurevich, Boris Inhomogeneous fluid-saturated porous materials are often probed with diffusion waves to estimate their effective hydraulic conductivity and diffusivity. Analysis of diffusion wave fields in randomly inhomogeneous poroelastic structures provides new insight into how fluctuations of the compressible constituents affect the effective diffusivity. Based on the method of statistical smoothing an effective wave number of the coherent diffusion wave field is computed. From this wave number both an effective hydraulic conductivity and diffusivity are identified. These transport properties are frequency dependent. The correspondence between this conductivity and that estimated from unsteady flow through porous media based on Darcy's law is elucidated. 2006 American Institute of Physics. 2006 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14791 10.1063/1.2189455 http://apl.aip.org/ fulltext
spellingShingle Muller, Tobias
Gurevich, Boris
Effective hydraulic conductivity and diffusivity of randomly heterogeneous porous solids with compressible constituents
title Effective hydraulic conductivity and diffusivity of randomly heterogeneous porous solids with compressible constituents
title_full Effective hydraulic conductivity and diffusivity of randomly heterogeneous porous solids with compressible constituents
title_fullStr Effective hydraulic conductivity and diffusivity of randomly heterogeneous porous solids with compressible constituents
title_full_unstemmed Effective hydraulic conductivity and diffusivity of randomly heterogeneous porous solids with compressible constituents
title_short Effective hydraulic conductivity and diffusivity of randomly heterogeneous porous solids with compressible constituents
title_sort effective hydraulic conductivity and diffusivity of randomly heterogeneous porous solids with compressible constituents
url http://apl.aip.org/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14791