In their recent article, Coyte et al. (1) use an innovative combination of microfluidic experiments, mechanistic models, and game theory to study the impact of physical microenvironments on the activity of bacteria in porous media. The authors find that hydrodynamics can profoundly affect how bacteria compete and evolve in these systems. They indicate that this conclusion could in principle hav...

solute transport in unsaturated porous media can be viewed as a coupled phenomenon with waterand heat transport, together with mechanical behaviour of media. in this paper, solute transport is formulatedmathematically considering heat and water flow in deformable porous media. advection, dispersion anddiffusion of chemical species in the liquid phase are considered. convection and conduction fo...

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A novel numerical method is presented for the simulation of flow in porous media, based on a mesoscopic-scale modelling using smoothed particle hydrodynamics. The method is demonstrated to provide encouraging results for both saturated and unsaturated porous media flow. The Darcy law is confirmed for low drift velocities in a saturated medium, while nonlinear behaviour is observed for higher va...

In this paper we have developed a model for two dimensional motion of a steady MHD flow through circular pipe which is bounded by a porous medium in presence of applied magnetic field. We have considered Brinkman equation for the flow through porous media using approximate boundary conditions the governing equation have been solved and solution for velocity in both the cases with porous media h...

We present a new methodology using highly wetting porous titania films to develop microfluidic devices which can be employed for medical diagnostics. Capillary flows through thin porous media are attractive for small-scale liquid transport systems. Capillary flows show different characteristics depending on the medium, however, for most media it is challenging to realize arbitrary shapes and sp...

In this research the stress-strain curve of porous Titanium, as a common material for biomedical application, was predicted using the mechanical properties of fully solid Titanium experimental data. Modified Gurson model (Gurson-Tvergaard-Needleman (GTN) model) was used to predict the plastic response of porous Titanium in compaction. Different values of GTN parameters were used for different i...

In the underdoped, overdoped, Zn-doped or stripe-forming regions of high-Tc cuprate superconductors (HTSC), the superfluid density ns/m∗ at T → 0 shows universal correlations with Tc. Similar strong correlations exist between 2dimensional superfluid density and superfluid transition temperature in thin films of He in non-porous or porous media, and He/He film adsorbed on porous media. Based on ...

This paper will present a theoretical and an experimental work which deals with the phenomena relating to the interaction of an acoustic wave with an interface between a porous media and a fluid. It is well kown that two different longitudinal waves can propagate through a porous medium, the reflection, transmission and mode conversion in an interface of this kind will be studied in detail. The...

The transport of substances back and forth between surface water and groundwater is a very serious problem. We study herein the mathematical model of this setting consisting of the Stokes equations in the fluid region coupled with the Darcy equations in the porous medium, coupled across the interface by the Beavers–Joseph–Saffman conditions. We prove existence of weak solutions and give a compl...