In this paper we systematically derive, via the theory of homogenization, the macroscopic equations for the mechanical behavior of a deformable porous medium saturated with a Newtonian fluid. The derivation is first based on the equations of linear elasticity in the solid, the Stokes equations for the fluid, and suitable conditions at the fluid-solid interface. A detailed comparison between the...

This article presents a numerical study of mixed-convection heat and mass transport in a liddriven square enclosure Ž lled with a non-Darcian  uid-saturated porous medium. The two vertical walls of the enclosure are insulated, while the horizontal walls are kept at constant but different temperatures and concentrations with the top surface moving at a constant speed. The transport equations ar...

The effect of drainage front morphology on gaseous diffusion through partially saturated porous media is analyzed using the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). Flow regimes for immiscible displacement in porous media have been characterized as stable displacement, capillary fingering, and viscous fingering. The dominance of a flow regime is associated with the relative magnitudes of gravity, viscou...

The objective of the present chapter is to analyze the radiation and mass transfer effects on an unsteady two-dimensional laminar mixed convective boundary layer flow of a viscous, incompressible, electrically conducting chemically reacting fluid, along a vertical moving semi-infinite permeable plate with suction, embedded in a uniform porous medium, in the presence of transverse magnetic field...

The effects of double diffusive natural convection heat and mass transfer along a vertical plate embedded in a power-law fluid saturated Darcy porous medium in the presence of Soret and Dufour effects are studied. The governing partial differential equations are transformed into ordinary differential equations using similarity transformations and then solved numerically. A parametric study of t...

(Preliminary Report.) The model formulation and existence theory is described for diffusion of a barotropic fluid through a partially saturated poroelastic composite medium consisting of two components. This includes the Barenblatt-Biot doublediffusion model of elastic deformation and laminar flow in a fissured medium, such as consolidation processes in a system of fissures distributed througho...

The present analysis investigates non-Darcy forced convective heat transfer in a channel confined by two parallel walls subjected to uniform heat flux in a highly porous medium saturated with a non-Newtonian power-law fluid. Extensive numerical integrations have been carried out utilizing the Brinkman-Forchheimer extension of the Darcy model in order to study the effects of pseudoplasticity, an...

Received 19 May 2010; received in revised 30 October 2011; accepted 18 January 2012 ABSTRACT This paper considers an important model of boundary value problem with a condition at infinity namely combined free and forced convection over a plane of arbitrary shape embedded in a fluid-saturated porous medium; this model admits dual solutions, and uses a technique, which is to some extent modificat...

The infinite Darcy-Prandtl number model is an effective reduced model for describing convection in a fluid-saturated porous medium. It is well known that the deterministic model does not possess a unique invariant measure. In this work we study the dynamics of the infinite Darcy-Prandtl number model, under an additive stochastic forcing of its low modes. This is the so-called stochastic infinit...

This paper deals with the analysis of an unsteady mixed convection flow of a fluid saturated porous medium adjacent to heated/cooled semi-infinite stretching vertical sheet in the presence of heat source. The unsteadiness in the flow is caused by continuous stretching of the sheet and continuous increase in the surface temperature. We present the analytical and numerical solutions of the proble...