Overview
- Presents a unique attempt to generalize some fundamental physical laws
- Describes the history of discovering the related physical laws and their scope of validity
- Discusses applications for selected engineering projects
Part of the book series: Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media (TATP, volume 28)
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This book presents a systematic attempt to generalize several fundamental physical laws related to subsurface fluid flow that are important for a number of contemporary applications in the areas of hydrogeology, reservoir engineering and rock mechanics. It also covers the history of discovering these physical laws, their respective scope of validity, and their generalizations or extensions.
The physical laws discussed include Darcy’s law, Darcy-Buckingham law and Hooke’s law. Darcy’s law is the fundamental law for subsurface fluid flow. For low-permeability media, it is not always adequate because of the strong fluid–solid interaction. Though the Darcy-Buckingham law is often used for modeling subsurface multiphase flow, it is only valid under the local equilibrium condition. This condition does not hold in many cases, especially when fingering flow occurs. It is well known that subsurface fluid flow is coupled with mechanical deformation of subsurface media; in some applications, this coupling can play a dominant role. The continuum-scale elastic deformation of natural rock, however, does not always follow the traditional form of Hooke’s law.
The book also presents applications of the proposed generalizations of the physical laws to several important engineering projects.
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Book Title: Fluid Flow in the Subsurface
Book Subtitle: History, Generalization and Applications of Physical Laws
Authors: Hui-Hai Liu
Series Title: Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43449-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43448-3Published: 07 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82827-5Published: 14 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43449-0Published: 31 August 2016
Series ISSN: 0924-6118
Series E-ISSN: 2213-6940
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 230
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 64 illustrations in colour
Topics: Hydrogeology, Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Geophysics/Geodesy, Geology, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Fluid- and Aerodynamics