Estimates of effective permeability for non-Newtonian fluid flow in randomly heterogeneous porous media

• Published in: Stochastic environmental research and risk assessment Vol. 24; no. 7; pp. 1067 - 1076
• Main Authors: Di Federico, Vittorio, Pinelli, Marco, Ugarelli, Rita
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01.10.2010; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aquatic Pollution; Chemistry and Earth Sciences; Computational Intelligence; Computer Science; Darcys law; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Environment; Estimating techniques; Flow geometry; Fluid dynamics; Fluid flow; Fluids; Geological engineering; Geometry; Heterogeneity; Low flow; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science; Non Newtonian fluids; Original Paper; Permeability; Permeability coefficient; Physics; Porous media; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes; Statistics for Engineering; Waste Water Technology; Water Management; Water Pollution Control; Porous media; Heterogeneity; Non-Newtonian; Power–law fluid

An understanding of the interplay between non-Newtonian effects in porous media flow and field-scale domain heterogeneity is of great importance in several engineering and geological applications. Here we present a simplified approach to the derivation of an effective permeability for flow of a pure...