Towards understanding factors affecting arsenic, chromium, and vanadium mobility in the subsurface

HR Peel, FO Balogun, CA Bowers, CT Miller… - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Arsenic (As), chromium (Cr), and vanadium (V) are naturally occurring, redox-active
elements that can become human health hazards when they are released from aquifer …

Upscaled dynamic capillary pressure for two-phase flow in porous media

D Lasseux, FJ Valdés-Parada - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
A closed expression for the average pressure difference (often called the macroscopic
dynamic capillary pressure in the literature) is proposed for two-phase, Newtonian …

Modeling flow of Carreau fluids in porous media

CA Bowers, CT Miller - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Carreau fluids occur routinely in porous medium systems for a range of applications, and the
dependence of the viscosity for such fluids on the rate of strain tensor poses challenges to …

Design and fabrication of a novel on-chip pressure sensor for microchannels

N Raventhiran, RS Molla, K Nandishwara, E Johnson… - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Pressure is important in virtually all problems in fluid dynamics from macro-scale to
micro/nano-scale flows. Although technologies are well developed for its measurement at …

A continuum mechanical framework for modeling tumor growth and treatment in two-and three-phase systems

CT Miller, WG Gray, BA Schrefler - Archive of Applied Mechanics, 2021 - Springer
The growth and treatment of tumors is an important problem to society that involves the
manifestation of cellular phenomena at length scales on the order of centimeters. Continuum …

Pore-Scale Dynamics of Liquid CO2–Water Displacement in 2D Axisymmetric Porous Micromodels Under Strong Drainage and Weak Imbibition Conditions: High …

Y Li, G Blois, F Kazemifar, RS Molla… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Resolving pore-scale transient flow dynamics is crucial to understanding the physics
underlying multiphase flow in porous media and informing large-scale predictive models …

Comparative study of capillary rise characteristics of saltwater in loose materials

NN Truc, NV Hoang - Marine Georesources & Geotechnology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Salt in groundwater is brought up by capillary action, and can penetrate into the
infrastructure of any building or structure within its reach. This leads to the destruction of …

Evolution of environmental engineering: Challenges and solutions

CT Miller, WG Gray, K Bruning - Journal of Environmental …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes
containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the …

Toward a new generation of two-fluid flow models based on the thermodynamically-constrained averaging theory

K Bruning, CT Miller - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
Traditional models of two-fluid flow through porous media at the macroscale have existed for
nearly a century. These phenomenological models are not firmly connected to the …

Generalized Newtonian Fluid Mechanics in Porous Medium Systems

CA Bowers - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Abstract Generalized Newtonian fluids (GNFs), for which the viscosity of the fluid is shear-
rate dependent, appear regularly in polymeric, geological, and biological flows, making …