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The Method of Volume Averaging

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Stephen Whitaker

    1. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California at Davis, USA

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Part of the book series: Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media (TATP, volume 13)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Diffusion and Heterogeneous Reaction in Porous Media

    • Stephen Whitaker
    Pages 1-71

  3. Transient Heat Conduction in Two-Phase Systems

    • Stephen Whitaker
    Pages 72-123

  4. Dispersion in Porous Media

    • Stephen Whitaker
    Pages 124-160

  5. Single-Phase Flow in Homogeneous Porous Media: Darcy’s Law

    • Stephen Whitaker
    Pages 161-180

  6. Single-Phase Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media

    • Stephen Whitaker
    Pages 181-196

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 197-221
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Multiphase systems dominate nearly every area of science and technology, and the method of volume averaging provides a rigorous foundation for the analysis of these systems. The development is based on classical continuum physics, and it provides both the spatially smoothed equations and a method of predicting the effective transport coefficients that appear in those equations. The text is based on a ten-week graduate course that has been taught for more than 20 years at the University of California at Davis and at other universities around the world. Problems dealing with both the theoretical foundations and the applications are included with each chapter, and detailed solutions for all problems are available from the author. The course has attracted participants from chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, hydrologic science, mathematics, chemistry and physics.

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  • Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California at Davis, USA

    Stephen Whitaker

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