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Effective Electrokinetic Parameters of Inhomogeneous Porous Media: The Effective Field Approximation

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Many porous media such as rocks have mesoscale inhomogeneities. The characteristic sizes of such inhomogeneities are much larger than the pore size but much less than the characteristic scale of the problem, such as the length of the sample on which measurements are taken. In this paper, we have solved the one-particle problem for depolarization of an ellipsoidal particle located in a porous medium with electrokinetic effect. To calculate the effective physical properties of a porous medium with many ellipsoidal inclusions, we have applied the effective field method. The application of this method allows us to take into account the texture of an inhomogeneous medium. The analysis performed has shown that three effective properties of inhomogeneous media (permeability, electroosmotic coupling coefficient and electrical conductivity) are not completely independent variables. General theory is illustrated by calculations of the effective properties of media containing spherical and spheroidal inclusions.

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    V. Levin, M. Markov & I. Markova

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Levin, V., Markov, M. & Markova, I. Effective Electrokinetic Parameters of Inhomogeneous Porous Media: The Effective Field Approximation. Transp Porous Med 121, 459–477 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-017-0969-y

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