A program was designed to allow the study of the effects of several parameters on the injection of water into and production of fluid from a fractured low porosity geothermal reservoir with properties similar to those at The Geysers. Fractures were modeled explicitly with low porosity, high permeability blocks rather than with a dual-porosity formulation to gain insight into the effects of sing...

Portland cement pervious concrete (PCPC) is increasingly being used in the United States in sidewalks and parking lots due to its benefits in reducing the amount of runoff water and improving water quality. In the United States, PCPC typically has high porosity and low strength, which has resulted in limited use of pervious concrete in hard wet freeze environments (i.e., the Midwest and Northea...

There is considerable recent progress in hair simulations, driven by the high demands in computer animated movies. However, capturing the complex interactions between hair and water is still relatively in its infancy. Such interactions are best modeled as those between water and an anisotropic permeable medium as water can flow into and out of the hair volume biased in hair fiber direction. Mod...

One-third of the total waste generated in world is construction and demolition waste. Reducing life cycle building materials includes increasing their recycling reuse by using recycled aggregates. By preventing, need to open new aggregate quarries reducing amount dumped into landfills, use concrete drum compacted protects environment. Four samples PRCC were prepared for testing (compressive str...

Controlled porosity osmotic tablet of metoprolol succinate prepared and evaluated in this study. Metoprolol succinate is very high soluble drug, so complete drug release obtained very fast. It is difficult to formulate osmotic tablet of Metoprolol succinate which gives drug release up to 24 hr at zero order. To get desired dissolution profile various formulation parameters like osmogen concentr...

Sound propagation in water-saturated granular sediments is known to depend on the sediment porosity, but few data in the literature address both the frequency and porosity dependency. To begin to address this deficiency, a fluidized bed technique was used to control the porosity of an artificial sediment composed of glass spheres of 265 μm diameter. Time-of-flight measurements and the Fourier p...

Jet grouting methods have recently become one of the soil enhancement technologies utilized to provide strength improvement and solve most problems weak soils. In this study, a full-scale 1 m diameter 5 length jet grout (soilcrete) column was constructed in field with water-to-cement ratio 400 bar pressure injections. A mechanical, physical, microstructural investigation performed on samples ta...

Although there is no assumption of pore geometry in derivation of Gassmann’s equation, the pore geometry is in close relation with hygroscopic water content and pore fluid communication between the micropores and the macropores. The hygroscopic water content in common reservoir rocks is small, and its effect on elastic properties is ignored in the Gassmann theory. However, the volume of hygrosc...