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The process of single-phase flow in rigid porous media is of importance to a variety of engineers and scientists who are concerned with problems ranging from the financial aspects of oil movement in petroleum reservoirs to the social problems of groundwater flows in polluted aquifers. In this chapter we will explore the simplest aspect of this problem i.e., incompressible flow in homogeneous porous media, while in Chapter 5 we will explore the problem of flow in heterogeneous media. Our treatment of homogeneous porous media is based on prior studies by Whitaker (1986d), Barrère et al. (1992), and Quintard and Whitaker (1994c).
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Whitaker, S. (1999). Single-Phase Flow in Homogeneous Porous Media: Darcy’s Law. In: The Method of Volume Averaging. Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3389-2_4
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