The presence of discontinuities such as cracks and faults in porous media can remarkably impact the fluid pressure distribution. This is due to considerable contrast between hydraulic properties of porous matrix and ...

This paper presents a domain boundary element formulation for inelastic saturated porous media with rate-independent behavior for the solid skeleton. The formulation is then applied to elastic-plastic behavior for the ...

Ti foams are attractive for orthopaedic applications due to reduced Young's modulus and ability of bone in-growth. However, poor corrosion behaviour and lack of bioactivity are yet to be overcome. In the present work, ...

Fractures, vugs and barriers are geological structures that strongly affect the fluid flow in porous media. While the first two lead to the formation of preferential flow paths, the latter blocks the flow and induces ...

A new discrete fracture model is introduced to simulate the steady-state fluid flow in discontinuous porous media. The formulation uses a multi-layered approach to capture the effect of both longitudinal and transverse ...

Several researches have been developed in order to verify the porosity effect over the ceramic material properties. The starch consolidation casting (SCC) allows to obtain porous ceramics by using starch as a binder and ...

In this paper we study a phase change problem for non-isothermal incompressible viscous flows. The underlying continuum is modelled as a viscous Newtonian fluid where the change of phase is either encoded in the viscosity ...