Overview
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Jacob Bear
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Albert and Anne Mansfield Chair in Water Resources, Department of Civil Engineering, Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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Yehuda Bachmat
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Hydrological Service, Ministry of Agriculture, Jerusalem, Israel
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxiv
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General Theory
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- Jacob Bear, Yehuda Bachmat
Pages 3-42
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- Jacob Bear, Yehuda Bachmat
Pages 43-262
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- Jacob Bear, Yehuda Bachmat
Pages 263-286
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Application
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Front Matter
Pages 287-287
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- Jacob Bear, Yehuda Bachmat
Pages 289-326
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- Jacob Bear, Yehuda Bachmat
Pages 327-398
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- Jacob Bear, Yehuda Bachmat
Pages 399-448
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- Jacob Bear, Yehuda Bachmat
Pages 449-480
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- Jacob Bear, Yehuda Bachmat
Pages 481-516
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Back Matter
Pages 517-553
About this book
The main purpose of this book is to provide the theoretical background to engineers and scientists engaged in modeling transport phenomena in porous media, in connection with various engineering projects, and to serve as a text for senior and graduate courses on transport phenomena in porous media. Such courses are taught in various disciplines, e. g. , civil engineering, chemical engineering, reservoir engineering, agricultural engineering and soil science. In these disciplines, problems are encountered in which various extensive quantities, e. g. , mass and heat, are transported through a porous material domain. Often the porous material contains several fluid phases, and the various extensive quantities are transported simultaneously throughout the multiphase system. In all these disciplines, management decisions related to a system's development and its operation have to be made. To do so, the 'manager', or the planner, needs a tool that will enable him to forecast the response of the system to the implementation of proposed management schemes. This forecast takes the form of spatial and temporal distributions of variables that describe the future state of the considered system. Pressure, stress, strain, density, velocity, solute concentration, temperature, etc. , for each phase in the system, and sometime for a component of a phase, may serve as examples of state variables. The tool that enables the required predictions is the model. A model may be defined as a simplified version of the real (porous medium) system that approximately simulates the excitation-response relations of the latter.
Authors and Affiliations
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Albert and Anne Mansfield Chair in Water Resources, Department of Civil Engineering, Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Jacob Bear
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Hydrological Service, Ministry of Agriculture, Jerusalem, Israel
Yehuda Bachmat
