IIT Kharagpur - Flow Through Porous Media
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Flow Through Porous Media at NPTEL Overview
Duration | 12 weeks |
Mode of learning | Online |
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Credential | Certificate |
Flow Through Porous Media at NPTEL Highlights
- INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Chemical Process Industries, Oil & Gas Companies, Environmental Consulatants
Flow Through Porous Media at NPTEL Course details
- Any engineering students/Faculty
- The flow through porous media happens in countless number of applications ranging from geophysical flow, recovery of oil, gas, minerals from mother earth, transport and sequestration of contaminant in subsurface, to the large scale chemical processes involving catalyst, filter, adsorbent, and also modeling of physiological processes
- Keeping this wide range of applications in mind, I will try to present a general overview of porous media flow, and introduce various theoretical tools to characterize and predict the flow
- The course is meant for undergraduate students, pursuing degrees in various engineering disciplines, listed in the section above for intended audience
- For few of these disciplines, “Flow through Porous Media” is considered a core course
- For others, this subject is taught as part of other core courses with different name
- This course will serve as a refresher course for PG students, who are engaged in research related to porous media flow
Flow Through Porous Media at NPTEL Curriculum
Course layout
Week 1: Introduction, permeability, porosity, various forms of characterizations
Week 2: Darcy’s Law, mass continuity in Cartesian and cylindrical coordinates, pressure equations
Week 3: Reynold’s Number for porous media, Kozeny Carman, and Ergun Equation
Week 4: Transport mechanisms: bulk and surface diffusion, Knudsen Transport, Klinkenberg effect, slip flow
Week 5: Immiscible displacement, two phase mass continuity, capillary pressure
Week 6: Conceptual models of relative permeability and saturation
Week 7: Progression of saturation front in two phase flow, Buckley Leverett theory
Week 8: Miscible displacement, diffusion in porous media, tracer test
Week 9: Introduction to Taylor Aris dispersion, dispersion regimes
Week 10: Migration and interception of fine particles
Week 11: Introduction to flow through deformable porous media
Week 12: Applications, summary
Flow Through Porous Media at NPTEL Faculty details
Flow Through Porous Media at NPTEL Entry Requirements
- Background in Fluid Mechanics or equivalent is preferred
- Not mentioned
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