Tortuous flow in porous media

Antti Koponen; M. Kataja; J. Timonen

doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.54.406

Tortuous flow in porous media

Antti Koponen
, M. Kataja
, J. Timonen

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University of Jyväskylä

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Abstract

The concept of tortuosity of fluid flow in porous media is discussed. A lattice-gas cellular automaton method is applied to solve the flow of a Newtonian uncompressible fluid in a two-dimensional porous substance constructed by randomly placed rectangles of equal size and with unrestricted overlap. A clear correlation between the average tortuosity of the flow paths and the porosity of the substance has been found.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	406-410
Journal	Physical Review E
Volume	54
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.54.406
Publication status	Published - 1996
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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