Porous Media: Theory, Experiments and Numerical Applications (Hardcover, 2002)

Foundations of multiphasic and porous materials.- Modelling of saturated thermo-elastic porous solids with different phase temperatures.- Micropolar mixture models on the basis of the Theory of Porous Media.- Elasto-plastic behaviour of a granular material with an additional scalar degree of freedom.- Mechanical aspect on drying of wet porous media.- Coupling between the evolution of a deformable porous medium and the motion of fluids in the connected porosity.- Fixed negative charges modulate mechanical behaviours and electrical signals in articular cartilage under unconfined compression - a triphasic paradigm.- Time adaptive analysis of saturated soil by a discontinuous-Galerkin method.- Biphasic description of viscoelastic foams by use of an extended Ogden-type formulation.- Experimental measurement of electrical conductivity and electro-osmotic permeability of ionised porous media.- Theory and numerics of localization in a fluid-saturated elasto-plastic porous medium.- Geometrical and material non-linear analysis of fully and partially saturated porous media.- Waves in poroelastic half space: Boundary element analyses.- Multicomponent reactive transport modelling: Applications to ore body genesis and environmental hazards.- A numerical model and its finite element solution for multiphase flow: Application to pulp and paper processing.- Author Index.