Non-Newtonian fluid flow through porous media with industrial applications
Porous medium is a material which is composed of network of pores which has the important properties such as permeability, porosity and tortuosity and are mostly noticed in the fluid flow problems . The numerous applications of porous medium in diversified areas of science, engineering and technology warrant the deeper understanding on the influence of related parameters on the important rheological quantities. The rheology of different kinds of fluids in porous media finds numerous technological applications in various fields viz bio-medical engineering, chemical engineering, petroleum engineering, manufacturing engineering etc. Porous media can be found everywhere around us, i.e. they can be found in living things (human skin, digestive systems, blood flow in arterioles), nature (river beds and agricultural fields absorb water), and in various industrial applications such as storage of solar heat energy in granular porous media, storing heat energy for residential houses using phase change material, storing pollutants in porous materials and their usage in certain biological actions, viz membrane transport, dialysis etc.
Related article:
D S Sankar, K K Viswanathan, Atulya K Nagar, Nurul Aini Binti Jafaar, A Vanav Kumar, Theoretical Study on Poiseuille Flow of Herschel-Bulkley Fluid in Porous Media, Journal of Applied and Computational Mechanics 8 (4) (2022) 1246 – 1269. https://doi.org/10.22055/JACM.2021.36921.2928.
