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Fluid flow through porous media widely exists in nature and artificial materials, and its theory has been used in all sorts of scientific and technological fields, such as soil mechanics, petroleum engineering, mineral engineering, environmental engineering, geothermal engineering, water supply engineering, chemical industry, micro machine, and so on. In this chapter, we will first give some basic concepts of fluid flow through porous media, such as porosity and compressibility of porous media. Then we will introduce Darcy’s law and mathematical model of fluid flow through porous media. Finally, we will utilize some principles of seepage mechanics to discuss solutions for planar one-directional flow and planar radial flow.
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Song, H. (2018). Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics Through Porous Media. In: Engineering Fluid Mechanics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0173-5_6
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