Transport Processes in Porous Media (Nato Science Series E: (202))

This volume contains the invited lectures presented during the NATO/ASI conducted in Pullman, Washington, July 9-18, 1989. This is the third in a series of NATO/ASIs on transport phenomena in porous media. The first two, which took place at Newark, Delaware in 1982 and 1985, are devoted to various topics related to the Fundamentals of Transport Processes in Porous Media. The contents of the books resulting from previous NATO/ASIs are given at the end of this book. Transport of extensive quantities such as mass of a fluid phase, mass of chemical species carried by a fluid phase, energy and electric charge in porous media, as encountered in a large variety of engineering disciplines, is an emerging interdisciplinary field. The groundwater flow, the simultaneous flow of gas, oil and water in petroleum reservoirs, the movement and accumulation of pollutants in the saturated and unsaturated subsurface zones, thermal energy storage in reservoirs, land subsidence in response to charges in overburden loads, or to pumping of fluids from underground formations, wave propagation in seismic investigations or as produced by earthquakes, chemical reactors, water flow through sand filters and the movement of fluids through kidneys, may serve as examples of fields in which the theory of transport in porous media is employed. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Structure of Porous Media....Pages 3-41 Deletion of Nondominant Effects in Modeling Transport in Porous Media....Pages 43-68 Hydrocarbons in Porous Media....Pages 69-201 Fluid Flow in Fractured Rock: Theory and Application....Pages 203-241 Transport Phenomena in Frozen Porous Media....Pages 243-270 Phosphorous Transport with Water Flow in Acid, Sandy Soils....Pages 271-314 Thermohydraulics of Heated Porous Media Associated with Nuclear Reactor Safety....Pages 315-370 Front Matter....Pages 371-371 Wave Propagation in Porous Media—A Review....Pages 373-469 Dynamic Behavior of Porous Media....Pages 471-519 Integral Representation and Sources in Isotropic Poroelastic Media....Pages 521-538 Front Matter....Pages 539-539 The Nature and Effects of Sorption Processes in Subsurface Systems....Pages 541-582 Chemical Kinetics and Mass Transfer Processes in Soils and Soil Constituents....Pages 583-637 Microbial Processes in Porous Media....Pages 639-691 Front Matter....Pages 693-693 Fluid Flow and Solute Transport in Fractal Heterogeneous Porous Media....Pages 695-722 Fractal Porous Media....Pages 723-743 Analysis of Spatial Variability Using a Numerical Spectral Approach....Pages 745-760 The Random Walk Method and Extensions in Groundwater Modelling....Pages 761-787 Ground Water Modeling: A Critical Review....Pages 789-819 Back Matter....Pages 821-825 Deploying state-of-the-art modeling techniques, this volume explores the full spectrum of topics related to transport in porous media, from single and multi phase flows in differing structures to experimental validation and specific technological applications.