Published October 1959 | public
Journal Article

Dispersion in flow through a network of capillaries

Saffman, P. G.
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Abstract

This paper presents the results of an analysis of dispersion in a porous medium, for the case when Dorcy's law is valid and the Péclet number is large. It is shown that, after a sufficiently long time, the effective longitudinal diffusivity is a logarithmic function of the Péclet number.

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© 1959 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Received 19 March 1959.

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