Modelling of Flow and Transport in Fractal Porous Media

This important resource explores recent theoretical advances and modelling on fluids transport in fractal porous systems and presents a systematic understanding of the characterization of complex microstructure and transport mechanism in fractal porous media.

Modelling of Flow and Transport in Fractal Porous Media shows how fractal theory and technology, combined with other modern experiments and numerical simulation methods, will assist researchers and practitioners in modelling of transport properties of fractal porous media, such as fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, mechanical characteristics, and electrical conductivity.

Presents the main methods and technologies for transport characterization of fractal porous media, including soils, reservoirs and artificial materialsProvides the most recent theoretical advances in modelling of fractal porous media, including gas and vapor transport in fibrous materials, nonlinear seepage flow in hydrocarbon reservoirs, mass transfer of porous nanofibers, and fractal mechanics of unsaturated soilsIncludes multidisciplinary examples of applications of fractal theory to aid researchers and practitioners in characterizing various porous media structures

1. Introduction to Modelling of Flow and Transport in Fractal Porous Media
2. Methods for calculating fractal dimension of porous media
3. Numerical study for tortuosity in two-dimensional and three-dimensional fractal porous media
4. Modeling gas and vapor transport in fibrous materials based on fractal approach
5. Transport Phenomena in Tree-like Networks
6. Flow and Transport in Porous Crystal Layer and Process Optimization with Fractal Based Approach
7. Saturation Dependent Transport Modes in Porous Media: Percolation Theory and Effective-Medium Approximation Applications
8. Capillary-driven flow in Fractal Porous Media
9. Application of Fractal Theory in Transient Pressure Properties of Hydrocarbon Reservoir
10. Hydrodynamics of flow in fractally permeable media
11. Modeling for Mass transfer of porous nanofibers using a fractal approach
12. Electrokinetic Effect in Fractal Porous Media
13. Soil Particle Size Distribution: From Modelling to Influence in the Void Space Configuration and Other Soil Properties
14. A fractal model of effective thermal conductivity for porous media with various liquid saturation