New Release: Physics of Flow in Porous Media

At Njord, we would like to congratulate Eirik Flekkøy and Alex Hansen who released the book "Physics of Flow in Porous Media". The third author, Jens Feder, passed away in 2019, and was the first director of the centre of excellence Physics of Geological Processes. This book builds on strong competences researchers in Oslo and Trondheim have built on the physics of porous media and that have led to the creation of the centre of excellence PoreLab.

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Image may contain: Glasses, Forehead, Hair, Smile, Glasses.Flekkøy is a director for the Center of Excellence, PoreLab Oslo witch is a part of the Njord Center. He studies especially the role of deformation processes in porous media. Such processes may involve a two-way coupling where fluid forces cause deformation of the porous matrix which, in turn, cause changes in the fluid flow.  

 

Book description
An invaluable reference for graduate students and academic researchers, this book introduces the basic terminology, methods and theory of the physics of flow in porous media. Geometric concepts, such as percolation and fractals, are explained and simple simulations are created, providing readers with both the knowledge and the analytical tools to deal with real experiments. It covers the basic hydrodynamics of porous media and how complexity emerges from it, as well as establishing key connections between hydrodynamics and statistical physics. Covering current concepts and their uses, this book is of interest to applied physicists and computational/theoretical Earth scientists and engineers seeking a rigorous theoretical treatment of this topic. Physics of Flow in Porous Media fills a gap in the literature by providing a physics-based approach to a field that is mostly dominated by engineering approaches.


Source: Cambridge University Press
•    Publisher: Cambridge University Press
•    Online publication date: September 2022
•    Print publication year: 2022
•    Online ISBN: 9781108989114
•    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009100717

 

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