Transition from creeping via viscous-inertial to turbulent flow in fixed beds

D Hlushkou, U Tallarek - Journal of Chromatography A, 2006 - Elsevier
This review is concerned with the analysis of flow regimes in porous media, in particular, in
fixed beds of spherical particles used as reactors in engineering applications, or as …

Fluid flow regimes and nonlinear flow characteristics in deformable rock fractures

Z Zhang, J Nemcik - Journal of Hydrology, 2013 - Elsevier
The presence of fracture roughness, isolated contact areas and the occurrence of nonlinear
flow complicate the fracture flow process. To experimentally investigate the fluid flow …

Determination of Forchheimer equation coefficients a and b

MG Sidiropoulou, KN Moutsopoulos… - Hydrological …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
This study focuses on the determination of the Forchheimer equation coefficients a and b for
non‐Darcian flow in porous media. Original theoretical equations are evaluated and …

Experimental investigation of flow behavior in smooth and rough artificial fractures

V Tzelepis, KN Moutsopoulos, JNE Papaspyros… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
The flow behavior in smooth and artificial rough fractures is experimentally investigated. The
piezometric head is measured at several positions to determine experimentally the head …

Non-Darcy flow of water through a packed column test

M Sedghi-Asl, H Rahimi, R Salehi - Transport in porous media, 2014 - Springer
As the flow velocity and Reynolds number increase in rockfilled porous media, the flow
deviates from Darcy conditions and enters into a new phase known as non-Darcy …

Review on the impact of fluid inertia effect on hydraulic fracturing and controlling factors in porous and fractured media

E Edirisinghe, MSA Perera - Acta Geotechnica, 2024 - Springer
The impact of fluid inertia on fracture flow dynamics, particularly under high-velocity
conditions, has emerged as a critical consideration in petroleum engineering and related …

The role of eddies inside pores in the transition from Darcy to Forchheimer flows

K Chaudhary, MB Cardenas, W Deng… - Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We studied the role of intra‐pore eddies, from viscous to inertial flows, in modifying
continuum‐scale flow inside pores. Flow regimes spanning Reynolds NumberRe∼ 0 to …

Physical splitting of nonlinear effects in high-velocity stable flow through porous media

M Panfilov, M Fourar - Advances in water resources, 2006 - Elsevier
For a high-velocity stable flow through a periodic corrugated channel representing an
element of porous medium, we suggest splitting the overall nonlinear macroscopic effects …

The effect of grain size distribution on nonlinear flow behavior in sandy porous media

JH van Lopik, R Snoeijers, TCGW van Dooren… - Transport in Porous …, 2017 - Springer
The current study provides new experimental data on nonlinear flow behavior in various
uniformly graded granular materials (20 samples) ranging from medium sands (d_ 50> 0.39 …

Approximate analytical solutions of the Forchheimer equation

KN Moutsopoulos, VA Tsihrintzis - Journal of Hydrology, 2005 - Elsevier
In this paper we derive approximate analytical solutions for non-steady-state, non-linear
flows through porous media, described by the Forchheimer equation. We demonstrate that …