The Physics of Fluids in Hierarchical Porous Media: Angstroms to Miles / Edition 1

by John H. Cushman

Overview

Porous media are ubiquitous throughout nature and in many modern technologies. Because of their omnipresent nature, porous media are studied to one degree or another in almost all branches of science and engineering. This text is an outgrowth of a two-semester graduate course on multiscale porous media offered to students in applied math, physics, chemistry, engineering (civil, chemical, mechanical, agricultural), and environmental and soil science. The text is largely based on Dr Cushmans' groups efforts to build a rational approach to studying porous media over a hierarchy of spatial and temporal scales. No other text covers porous media on scales ranging from angstroms to miles. Nor does any other text develop and use such a diversity of tools for their study. The text is designed to be self-contained, as it presents all relevant mathematical and physical constructs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789048149094
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/09/2010
Series:	Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media , #10
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
Pages:	469
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

I. An Introduction to Continuum Physics.- II. An Introduction to Statistical Mechanics with Applications to Nonlocal Dispersion.- III. Single Species LJ-Fluids in Slit Micropores.- IV. Simulation of More Complicated Fluids and More Complicated Microporous Media.- V. Multiscale Hybrid Mixture Theory (HMT) for Swelling Porous Media.- VI. Macroscale Nonlocal Dispersion.- References.

Editorial Reviews

Porous media are ubiquitous throughout nature, and Cushman (Purdue U.) has created a rational, coherent approach for studying them. His multidisciplinary text is the outgrowth of a two-semester graduate course on multiscale porous media offered to students in applied mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering (civil, chemical, mechanical, agricultural) and environmental and soil science. Coverage includes an introduction to continuum physics; classical equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics; the anomalous behavior of fluids in microporous materials; the propagation of information from the microscale to the mesoscale and the mesoscale to the macroscale for systems with colloids; and macroscale nonlocal dispersion. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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