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Transport in Porous Media, Vol.45, No.2, 195-213, 2001
Generalized macroscopic models for fluid flow in deformable porous media II: Numerical results and applications
In Part I of this study, generalized mathematical models were developed to describe the motion of fluids in porous media. The second part of this study solved the problem of fluid flow in small channels of a periodic elastic solid matrix at the pore scale numerically, and applied the volume-averaging technique to predict the macroscopic behavior of reservoirs. The numerical results demonstrated different macroscopic behavior of a porous medium due to cyclic excitation at various frequencies corresponding to the five separate characteristic macroscopic models identified in Part I. The results emphasize the need to use an appropriate model to interpret the corresponding responses of a saturated porous medium.
Keywords:homogenization;asymptotic analysis;harmonic perturbation;coupling of fluid and solid motions