Porous Media Flow


The flow phenomena over and through porous media have attracted significant interest for decades due to their applicability in a wide range of industrial and environmental applications. They have also been utilized as transport methods for medical and biological applications. We study the numerical modelling of porous media flows and conduct numerical simulations in order to characterize the flows over and through porous media.

Applications

  • Oil & gas reservoirs

  • Thermal insulation

  • Filtration & drying processes

  • Groundwater hydrology

  • Canopy flows


  • Transport in human tissues

  • Bio-convection in biological media

  • Blood flow in microvessels

  • flow through polymer brushes and chains

Fluid flow near permeable surfaces

Schematic diagram of a fully developed laminar flow in a rectangular channel over a permeable surface

Volume-Averaged Navier-Stokes (VANS) equation