The propagation of plane waves in a Faraday chiral medium is investigated. Conditions for the phase velocity to be directed opposite to the direction of power flow are derived for propagation in an arbitrary direction; simplified conditions which apply to propagation parallel to the distinguished axis are also established. These negative phase-velocity conditions are explored numerically using ...

Affected by complex fault blocks, sedimentary environment and reservoir physical properties, Jidong Oilfield generally develops small-scale sand bodies, accounting for 24.2% of the produced reserves medium low permeability reservoirs. Such bodies rely on elastic energy to develop are difficult use effectively. In this paper, through three-dimensional hydraulic model experiment analysis oil laye...

Under the generalized coherent-potential approximation, we established a "quasimode" theory to study the effective-medium properties of electromagnetic metamaterials. With this theory, we calculate the self-energy, density of states (DOS), and mean-free paths for optical modes traveling inside a metamaterial, and then determine the effective permittivity and permeability of the metamaterial by ...

The presence of microorganisms could alter the porous medium permeability, which is vital for several applications, including aquifer storage and recovery (ASR), enhanced oil (EOR) underground hydrogen storage.

The Carboniferous volcanic reservoirs in the Shixi area of Junggar Basin are complex and diverse. Identifying characteristics main factors controlling high-quality is key to increasing oil gas reserves production this area. Through core observations, thin section identification, physical property pore structure analyses, combined with data, development modes were analysed. results show that str...

Study of permeability of Fibrous Composites is important in several natural and industrial processes in mechanical engineering. In this study, a comprehensive mathematical model is presented for calculation of normal permeability of ordered elliptical fibrous media. An innovative scale-analysis technique is employed for determining the normal permeability of elliptical fibrous media. In this te...

A solution is developed for the evolution of buildup, steady, and postarrest dissipative pore-fluid pressure fields that develop around a finite-radius conical penetrometer advanced in a saturated linearly elastic porous medium. The analog with cone penetrometer testing is direct and is used to enable continuous distributions of permeability and diffusivity to be determined with depth. This ana...

To ascertain the coupling between Ca2+ and H+ fluxes during Ca2+ transport by the Ca2(+)-pumping ATPase of the sarcoplasmic reticulum, we used well characterized reconstituted proteoliposomes. The method for the functional reconstitution of the Ca2(+)-ATPase was an extension of our recently published procedure (Rigaud, J. L., Paternostre, M. T., and Bluzat, A. (1988) Biochemistry, 27, 2677-2688...

Pulsatile flow of blood through a porous medium has been studied under the influence of periodic body acceleration by considering blood as a couple stress, incompressible, electrically conducting fluid in the presence of magnetic field. An exact solution of the equation of motion is obtained by applying the Laplace and finite Hankel transforms. The expressions for axial velocity, flow rate, flu...

This paper addresses one of the major challenges in water-flooded oil reservoirs, which is early water breakthrough due to the presence of high permeable layers in the media. COMSOL Multiphysics is used to model two phase (water and oil) flow in dual-permeability porous medium at micro-scales. The heat transfer module is coupled with the laminar two-phase flow interface, because temperature aff...