The Method of Volume Averaging
By: by Stephen Whitaker
Series: Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media -- 13; Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media -- 13
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9789048151424; 9789401733892
Subjects: Mechanics; Geography; Environmental pollution; Chemical engineering; Hydraulic engineering
Description: 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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