The Method of Volume Averaging

1. Front Matter

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2. Diffusion and Heterogeneous Reaction in Porous Media

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   Pages 1-71

3. Transient Heat Conduction in Two-Phase Systems

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   Pages 72-123

4. Dispersion in Porous Media

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   Pages 124-160

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

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   Pages 161-180

6. Single-Phase Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media

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   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.

• chemical engineering
• chemistry
• development
• flow
• transport
• hydrogeology
• terrestrial pollution

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

  Stephen Whitaker

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