RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERMEABILITY AND DIFFUSION-CONTROLLED TRAPPING CONSTANT OF POROUS-MEDIA

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TORQUATO, S [1 ]
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[1] N CAROLINA STATE UNIV,DEPT CHEM ENGN,RALEIGH,NC 27605
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.2644
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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For anisotropic porous media of arbitrary topology, it is shown that there exists a rigorous relation between the fluid permeability tensor k and the diffusion-controlled trapping constant, namely, k-1I. It is demonstrated that the equality is achieved for a certain class of microstructures and that the bound can be relatively sharp for other media. The important fundamental as well as practical implications of this relation are discussed. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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