Understanding light nonaqueous-phase liquid (LNAPL) movement in heterogeneous vadose environments is important for effective remediation design. We investigated LNAPL movement near a sloping fineover coarse-grained textural interface, forming a capillary barrier. LNAPL flow experiments were performed in a glass chamber (50 cm 3 60 cm 3 1.0 cm) using two silica sands (12/20 and 30/40 sieve sizes...

BACKGROUND Although both pressure and flow are considered important determinants of regional organ perfusion, the relative importance of each is less established. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the impact of variations in flow, pressure, or both on cerebral and whole-body oxygen saturation. METHODS Thirty-four consenting patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery on cardiopulm...

In theories of multiphase flow through porous media, capillary pressure-saturation and relative permeability-saturation curves are assumed to be intrinsic properties of the medium. Moreover, relative permeability is assumed to be a scalar property. However, numerous theoretical and experimental works have shown that these basic assumptions may not be valid. For example, relative permeability is...

Living tissues require a sufficient supply of oxygen for survival. An insufficient supply of oxygen may result from impairments of the respiration or oxygen transport systems, such as lung disease, heart disease, and anemia. Supplemental oxygen therapy increases the oxygen content in the lungs and blood oxygen saturation. The control of the oxygen flow is typically adjusted manually. This manua...

During a rainfall water infiltration into an unsaturated soil, zones of saturation may be developed anywhere within the flow domain. Consequently, a natural question arises: under which conditions depending on the rate at which rain water is supplied, the initial moisture distribution in the soil, the presence of underground sources and the boundary permeability, the flow domain may be separate...

A theoretical model for carbon dioxide (CO2) migration in tilted aquifers with groundwater flow is presented to evaluate the injection of CO2 into a geological formation. Capillary force in the flow of two immiscible fluids in a porous medium creates a saturation transition zone, where the saturation changes gradually. A vertical equilibrium assumption is employed to solve for the capillary pre...

Sudden complete occlusion of a major coronary artery (left circumflex or right coronary artery) was produced in anesthetized dogs. The effect on arterial inflow, venous outflow and O« saturation of coronary venous blood from the nonischemic left ventricle was studied. The usual response to occlusion of the left circumflex artery was an increase in flow in the left anterior descending artery and...

This paper presents studies on applying the novel weak Galerkin finite element method (WGFEM) to a two-phase model for subsurface flow, which couples the Darcy equation for pressure and a transport equation for saturation in a nonlinear manner. The coupled problem is solved in the framework of operator decomposition. Specifically, the Darcy equation is solved by theWGFEM, whereas the saturation...

Two phase flow in porous media is well known for its high importance in many of the industrial and engineering applications like petroleum reservoir, sedimentation process, water management in polymer electrolyte fuel cells, environmental remediation etc. By the two phase flow we mean the simultaneous flow of two fluids ( for instance oil and water) and a porous medium is a substance that conta...