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Phase transitions in porous media consisting of a porous solid filled with liquid and gas constituents can occur, for example, due to freezing and drying processes. Although these phenomena are of certain relevance in soil mechanics and material sciences, a general thermo-dynamical theory is still awaited. Based on recent findings in the porous media theory, this paper is concerned with the development of thermodynamic restrictions for the constitutive relations of an elastic, incompressible porous solid, filled with an incompressible liquid and a compressible gas. The investigations show that mass conversions are related to the differences of the chemical potentials and energy transitions to the differences of temperatures. Thus, they confirm well-known results in classical thermodynamics of gases.
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de Boer, R., Bluhm, J. Phase Transitions in Gas- and Liquid-Saturated Porous Solids. Transport in Porous Media 34, 249–267 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006577828659
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