Dispersion in Porous Media
Dispersion in Porous Media
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DOI:
10.1007/978-94-009-2825-1_8
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发表时间:
1988
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通讯作者:
J. Brady;D. Koch
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作者:
J. Brady;D. Koch
The molecular diffusivity of a tracer species in a given medium is a measure of the average spread of the tracer due to fluctuations in its velocity on the molecular scale. In a medium that is heterogeneous on a macroscopic scale, a tracer will experience an additional spreading due to variations in its velocity as it moves through the heterogeneous medium. This spreading due to macroscale velocity fluctuations is known as dispersion and is the subject of this article.The transport of passive scalar species such as heat, mass or electric potential in heterogeneous media is important in many natural and man-made settings. For example, macroscopic heterogeneities affect the transport of electrons through amorphous semiconductors. The dispersion of a second miscible fluid or an injected sufactant may limit the effectiveness of enhanced oil recovery techniques. Heat and mass transfer affect the efficiency and operability of packed bed reactors and contacting devices used throughout the chemical and biochemical industry. The rate of dissipation of pollutants may be greatly increased by the complex macroscopic velocity fields present in rivers, ground water flows and the atmosphere. Finally, the large variety of dispersal phenomena made possible by the competition between convection and molecular diffusion in heterogeneous media makes the study of dispersion in porous media an interesting and exciting area. And as a result, there have been many such studies 1-20.