Mathematical analysis of variable density flows in porous media

We consider a simple model describing the motion of a two-component mixture through a porous medium. We discuss well posedness of the associated initial-boundary value problem, in particular, with respect to the choice of boundary and far-field conditions. The existence of global-in-time solutions is proved in the ideal case when the fluid occupies the whole physical space. Finally, similar results are obtained also for the boundary value problems in the simplified 1-D geometry.     

Analytic solution for MHD Transient rotating flow of a second grade fluid in a porous space

This article looks into the unsteady rotating magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of an incompressible second grade fluid in a porous half space. The flow is induced by a suddenly moved plate in its own plane. Both the fluid and plate rotate in unison with the same angular velocity. Analytic solution of the governing flow problem is obtained by using Fourier sine transform. Based on the modified Darcy's law, expression for velocity is obtained. The influence of pertinent parameters on the flow is delineated and appropriate conclusions are drawn. Several existing solutions of Newtonian fluid have been also deduced as limiting cases.     

Diffusion in poro‐plastic media

A model is developed for the flow of a slightly compressible fluid through a saturated inelastic porous medium. The initial‐boundary‐value problem is a system that consists of the diffusion equation for the fluid coupled to the momentum equation for the porous solid together with a constitutive law which includes a possibly hysteretic relation of elasto‐visco‐plastic type. The variational form of this problem in Hilbert space is a non‐linear evolution equation for which the existence and uniqueness of a global strong solution is proved by means of monotonicity methods. Various degenerate situations are permitted, such as incompressible fluid, negligible porosity, or a quasi‐static momentum equation. The essential sufficient conditions for the well‐posedness of the system consist of an ellipticity condition on the term for diffusion of fluid and either a viscous or a hardening assumption in the constitutive relation for the porous solid. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Steady MHD flow of a third grade fluid in a rotating frame and porous space

This paper looks at numerical solutions of steady state rotating and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of a third grade fluid past a rigid plate with slip. The space occupying the fluid is porous. The flow modeling is based upon the modified Darcy’s law. The resulting non-linear problem is solved using MATLAB^®. The influence of pertinent flow parameters on the velocity profiles is illustrated and discussed.     

Dynamic responses of shear flows over a deformable porous surface layer in a cylindrical tube

This paper investigates dynamic responses of a viscous fluid flow introduced under a time dependent pressure gradient in a rigid cylindrical tube that is lined with a deformable porous surface layer. With the Darcy’s law and a linear elasticity assumption, we have solved the coupling effect of the fluid movement and the deformation of the porous medium in the Laplace transform space. Governing equations are deduced for the solid displacement and the fluid velocity in the porous layer. Analytical solutions in the transformed domain are derived and the time dependent variables are inverted numerically using Durbin’s algorithm. Interaction between the solid and the fluid phases in the porous layer and its effects on fluid flow in tube are investigated under steady and unsteady flow conditions when the solid phase is either rigid or deformable. Examples are presented for flows driven by a Heaviside or a sinusoid pressure gradient. Significant effects of the porous surface layer on the flow in the tube are observed. The analytical solutions can be used to test more complicated numerical schemes.     

Nonsimilar boundary layer analysis of double-diffusive convection from a vertical truncated cone in a porous medium with variable viscosity

This work presents a boundary layer analysis about variable viscosity effects on the double-diffusive convection near a vertical truncated cone in a fluid-saturated porous medium with constant wall temperature and concentration. The viscosity of the fluid is assumed to be an inverse linear function of the temperature. A boundary layer analysis is employed to derive the nondimensional nonsimilar governing equations, and the transformed boundary layer governing equations are solved by the cubic spline collocation method to yield computationally efficient numerical solutions. The obtained results are found to be in good agreement with previous papers on special cases of the problem. Results for local Nusselt and Sherwood numbers are presented as functions of viscosity-variation parameter, buoyancy ratio, and Lewis number. For a porous medium saturated with a Newtonian fluid with viscosity proportional to an inverse linear function of temperature, higher value of viscosity-variation parameter leads to the decrease of the viscosity in fluid flow, thus increasing the fluid velocity as well as the local Nusselt number and the local Sherwood number.     

Couette flow of a third grade fluid with rotating frame and slip condition

An incompressible third grade fluid occupies the porous space between two rigid infinite plates. The steady rotating flow of this fluid due to a suddenly moved lower plate with partial slip of the fluid on the plate is analysed. The fluid filling the porous space between the two plates is electrically conducting. The flow modeling is developed by employing a modified Darcy’s law. A numerical solution of the governing problem consisting of a non-linear ordinary differential equation and non-linear boundary conditions is obtained and discussed. Several limiting cases of the arising problem can be obtained by choosing suitable parameters.     

Spectral Lanczos decomposition method for solving single-phase fluid flow porous media

A three-dimensional well model (r ? θ ? z) for the simulation of single-phase fluid flow in porous media is developed. Rather than directly solving the 3-D parabolic PDE (partial differential equation) for fluid flow, the PDE is transformed to a linear operator problem that is defined as u = f( A ) σ , where A is a real symmetric square matrix and σ is a vector. The linear operator problem is solved by using the spectral Lanczos decomposition method. This formulation gives continuous solutions in time. A 7-point finite difference scheme is used for the spatial discretization. The model is useful for well testing problems as well as for the simulation of the wireline formation tester tool behavior in heterogeneous reservoirs. The linear operator formulation also permits us to obtain solutions in the Laplace domain, where the wellbore storage and skin can be incorporated analytically. The infinite-conductivity (uniform pressure) wellbore condition is preserved when mixed boundary conditions, such as partial penetration, occur. The numerical solutions are compared with the analytical solutions for fully and partially penetrated wells in a homogeneous reservoir. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Exact solutions of Stokes’ first problem for heated generalized Burgers’ fluid in a porous half-space

This work is concerned with applying the fractional calculus approach to the fundamental Stokes’ first problem of a heated Burgers’ fluid in a porous half-space. Modified Darcy's law for a Burgers’ fluid with fractional model is introduced first time. By using the Fourier sine transform and the fractional Laplace transform, exact solutions of the velocity and temperature field are obtained. The solutions for a Navier–Stokes, second grade, Maxwell, Oldroyd-B or Burgers’ fluid appear as the limiting cases of the present analysis.     

A note on some solutions for the flow of a fourth grade fluid in a porous space

This paper investigates the time independent unidirectional flow of a fourth grade fluid filling the porous half space. Flow modelling is based upon a modified Darcy’s law. Travelling wave and conditional symmetry solutions are developed. The graphs are plotted and discussed for the sundry parameters.     

Periodic behaviour for the evolutionary dam problem and related free boundary problems Evolutionary dam problem

The time dependent dam problem describing the seepage of a compressible or incompressible fluid in a porous dam is studied. We prove existence of solutions in a suitable weak sense, and uniqueness for rectangular dams. Existence or periodic solutions is established and questions ofstability and periodic behavior for large time are studied.     

Homotopy solution for the unsteady three-dimensional MHD flow and mass transfer in a porous space

A homotopy analysis method (HAM) is employed to investigate the unsteady magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow induced by a stretching surface. An incompressible viscous fluid fills the porous space. The heat and mass transfer analyses are also studied. Series solutions have been constructed. Comparative study between the series and exact solutions is also given. The effects of embedded parameters in the considered problems are examined in detail.     

Some exact solutions for fractional generalized Burgers’ fluid in a porous space

This work is concerned with deriving the equation for describing the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of a fractional generalized Burgers’ fluid in a porous space. Modified Darcy's law has been taken into account. Closed form solutions for velocity are obtained in three problems. The solutions for Navier–Stokes, second grade, Maxwell, Oldroyd-B and Burgers’ fluids appear as the limiting cases of the obtained solutions. A parametric study of some physical parameters involved in the problems is performed to illustrate the influence of these parameters on the velocity profiles.     

Perturbation analysis of a modified second grade fluid over a porous plate

A modified second grade non-Newtonian fluid model is considered. The model is a combination of power-law and second grade fluids in which the fluid may exhibit normal stresses, shear thinning or shear thickening behaviors. The flow of this fluid is considered over a porous plate. Equations of motion in dimensionless form are derived. When the power-law effects are small compared to second grade effects, a regular perturbation problem arises which is solved. The validity criterion for the solution is derived. When second grade effects are small compared to power-law effects, or when both effects are small, the problem becomes a boundary layer problem for which the solutions are also obtained. Perturbation solutions are contrasted with the numerical solutions. For the regular perturbation problem of small power-law effects, an excellent match is observed between the solutions if the validity criterion is met. For the boundary layer solution of vanishing second grade effects however, the agreement with the numerical data is not good. When both effects are considered small, the boundary layer solution leads to the same solution given in the case of a regular perturbation problem.     

恶性肿瘤的传质问题（Ⅰ）——流体动力学部分

本文提出肿瘤内部液体和药物传质的三重介质模型·在这部分，研究间隙压力和对流的作用·对于孤立肿瘤和被正常组织包围的肿瘤得到了分析解·计算结果与实验一致，即组织间隙的高压是阻碍药物进入肿瘤的主要原因·文章详细分析了降低间隙压力的参数·     

Some exact solutions of an elastico-viscous fluid

The exact solutions for the unsteady flow of an elastico-viscous fluid caused by general periodic oscillations are obtained. Further, the plate is assumed to be rigid as well as porous executing periodic rotary oscillations. The velocity field and shear stress are established.     

Computational treatment of free convection effects on perfectly conducting viscoelastic fluid

We introduced a magnetohydrodynamic model of boundary-layer equations for a perfectly conducting viscoelastic fluid. This model is applied to study the effects of free convection currents with one relaxation time on the flow of a perfectly conducting viscoelastic fluid through a porous medium, which is bounded by a vertical plane surface. The state space approach is adopted for the solution of one-dimensional problems. The resulting formulation together with the Laplace transform technique is applied to a thermal shock problem and a problem for the flow between two parallel fixed plates, both without heat sources. Also a problem for the semi-infinite space in the presence of heat sources is considered. A discussion of the effects of cooling and heating on a perfectly conducting viscoelastic fluid is given. Numerical results are illustrated graphically for each problem considered.     

The pressure distribution around a growing crack

Exact solutions of the problem of the pressure distribution around an ideal hydraulic fracture are derived. The crack propagates in a permeable porous medium following a square-root growth law. The case of the penetration of the fracturing fluid into a reservoir is also considered.     

The filtering of a suspension of solid particles

The changes in the conducting properties of a porous medium when a fluid with suspended solid particles moves through it are investigated. A model system of equations is presented, a class of exact solutions is obtained for initial problem and of the initial-boundary-value problem. A comparison is made with experiment using the example of the percolation of a suspension into a pure uniform sample. It is shown that the model considered describes, qualitatively correctly, the behaviour of the main parameters of the porous medium and the flow of the suspension during colmatage (silt deposition).     

Entropy solutions to the Verigin ultraparabolic problem

We study the Cauchy problem for the two-dimensional ultraparabolic model of filtration of a viscous incompressible fluid containing an admixture, with diffusion of the admixture in a porous medium taken into account. The porous medium consists of the fibers directed along some vector field n ^⊥. We prove that if the nonlinearity in the equations of the model and the geometric structure of fibers satisfy some additional “genuine nonlinearity” condition then the Cauchy problem with bounded initial data has at least one entropy solution and the fast oscillating regimes possible in the initial data are promptly suppressed in the entropy solutions. The proofs base on the introduction and systematic study of the kinetic equation associated with the problem as well as on application of the modification of Tartar H-measures which was proposed by Panov.