Flow in Porous Rocks

Flow in Porous Rocks
Author: Andrew W. Woods
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2015
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107065852

This book provides simplified models explaining flows in heterogeneous rocks, their physics and energy production processes, for researchers, energy industry professionals and graduate students.

Upscaling Multiphase Flow in Porous Media

Upscaling Multiphase Flow in Porous Media
Author: D.B. Das
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2005-06-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781402035135

This book provides concise, up-to-date and easy-to-follow information on certain aspects of an ever important research area: multiphase flow in porous media. This flow type is of great significance in many petroleum and environmental engineering problems, such as in secondary and tertiary oil recovery, subsurface remediation and CO2 sequestration. This book contains a collection of selected papers (all refereed) from a number of well-known experts on multiphase flow. The papers describe both recent and state-of-the-art modeling and experimental techniques for study of multiphase flow phenomena in porous media. Specifically, the book analyses three advanced topics: upscaling, pore-scale modeling, and dynamic effects in multiphase flow in porous media. This will be an invaluable reference for the development of new theories and computer-based modeling techniques for solving realistic multiphase flow problems. Part of this book has already been published in a journal. Audience This book will be of interest to academics, researchers and consultants working in the area of flow in porous media.

Convective Heat Transfer in Porous Media

Convective Heat Transfer in Porous Media
Author: Yasser Mahmoudi
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2019-11-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0429672047

Focusing on heat transfer in porous media, this book covers recent advances in nano and macro’ scales. Apart from introducing heat flux bifurcation and splitting within porous media, it highlights two-phase flow, nanofluids, wicking, and convection in bi-disperse porous media. New methods in modeling heat and transport in porous media, such as pore-scale analysis and Lattice–Boltzmann methods, are introduced. The book covers related engineering applications, such as enhanced geothermal systems, porous burners, solar systems, transpiration cooling in aerospace, heat transfer enhancement and electronic cooling, drying and soil evaporation, foam heat exchangers, and polymer-electrolyte fuel cells.

Post-Dryout Heat Transfer

Post-Dryout Heat Transfer
Author: G.F. Hewitt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2017-10-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1351423312

The study of post-dryout heat transfer has generated great interest because of its importance in determining maximum clad temperature in nuclear reactor loss-of-coolant accidents (LOCAs). An associated phenomenon, the deterioration of heat transfer in boiling, is significant to other industrial sectors. This book provides comprehensive coverage of post-dryout heat transfer, discussing such essential topics as post-dryout heat transfer in dispersed flow, interpretation and use of transient data in surface rewetting by reinstatement of flow or by reducing heat flux, rod bundles, two-phase flow occurrences in the post-dryout region, various methods for predicting ""inverted annular flow,"" and new experiments for measuring thermodynamic nonequilibrium with probes in the channel. The book also presents a basis for independent safety assessment of nuclear reactors and chemical plant systems where post-dryout heat transfer may occur. Post-Dryout Heat Transfer will be a useful reference for researchers and professionals in the nuclear and chemical production industries.

Multiphase Flow in Permeable Media

Multiphase Flow in Permeable Media
Author: Martin J. Blunt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2017-02-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1107093465

This book provides a fundamental description of multiphase fluid flow through porous rock, based on understanding movement at the pore, or microscopic, scale.

Computational Methods for Multiphase Flows in Porous Media

Computational Methods for Multiphase Flows in Porous Media
Author: Zhangxin Chen
Publisher: SIAM
Total Pages: 551
Release: 2006-04-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0898716063

This book offers a fundamental and practical introduction to the use of computational methods. A thorough discussion of practical aspects of the subject is presented in a consistent manner, and the level of treatment is rigorous without being unnecessarily abstract. Each chapter ends with bibliographic information and exercises.

Handbook of Porous Media

Handbook of Porous Media
Author: Kambiz Vafai
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 946
Release: 2015-06-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1439885575

Handbook of Porous Media, Third Edition offers a comprehensive overview of the latest theories on flow, transport, and heat-exchange processes in porous media. It also details sophisticated porous media models which can be used to improve the accuracy of modeling in a variety of practical applications. Featuring contributions from leading experts i

Convection in Porous Media

Convection in Porous Media
Author: D.A. Nield
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 655
Release: 2006-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0387334319

This new edition includes nearly 1000 new references.

Upscaling of Single- and Two-Phase Flow in Reservoir Engineering

Upscaling of Single- and Two-Phase Flow in Reservoir Engineering
Author: Hans Bruining
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2021-11-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1000463303

This book describes fundamental upscaling aspects of single-phase/two-phase porous media flow for application in petroleum and environmental engineering. Many standard texts have been written about this subject. What distinguishes this work from other available books is that it covers fundamental issues that are frequently ignored but are relevant for developing new directions to extend the traditional approach, but with an eye on application. Our dependence on fossil energy is 80–90% and is only slowly decreasing. Of the estimated 37 (~40) Gton/year, anthropogenic emissions of about 13 Gton/year of carbon dioxide remain in the atmosphere. An Exergy Return on Exergy Invested analysis shows how to obtain an unbiased quantification of the exergy budget and the carbon footprint. Thus, the intended audience of the book learns to quantify his method of optimization of recovery efficiencies supported by spreadsheet calculations. As to single-phase-one component fluid transport, it is shown how to deal with inertia, anisotropy, heterogeneity and slip. Upscaling requires numerical methods. The main application of transient flow is to find the reasons for reservoir impairment. The analysis benefits from solving the porous media flow equations using (numerical) Laplace transforms. The multiphase flow requires the definition of capillary pressure and relative permeabilities. When capillary forces dominate, we have dispersed (Buckley-Leverett flow). When gravity forces dominate, we obtain segregated flow (interface models). Miscible flow is described by a convection-dispersion equation. We give a simple proof that the dispersion coefficient can be approximated by Gelhar's relation, i.e., the product of the interstitial velocity, the variance of the logarithm of the permeability field and a correlation length. The book will appeal mostly to students and researchers of porous media flow in connection with environmental engineering and petroleum engineering.