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A Micropolar Theory of Porous Media: Constitutive Modelling

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The extension of the classical mixture theory by the concept of volume fractions leads to the theory of porous media. In this article, the theory of porous media is generalised to micropolar constituents. The kinematic relations and the balance equations for a porous medium are developed without restricting the number of constituents. Based on the entropy inequality, the general form of the constitutive equations are derived for a binary medium consisting of a porous elastic skeleton saturated by a viscous pore-fluid. Both constituents are assumed to be compressible. Handling the saturation constraint by a Lagrangian multiplier leads to a compatibility of the proposed model to so-called hybrid and incompressible models.

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Diebels, S. (1999). A Micropolar Theory of Porous Media: Constitutive Modelling. In: De Boer, R. (eds) Porous Media: Theory and Experiments. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4579-4_12

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