{"title":"Drag of Rankine bodies embedded in porous media at small Darcy numbers","authors":"C.Y. Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.mechrescom.2024.104319","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper studies the flow over a solid inclusion embedded in a porous medium of low permeability. We study Rankine bodies which represent circular cylinders and spheres when the aspect ratio is one, and thin plates and almost uniform rods when the aspect ratio is small. Using boundary layer theory, the flow field and pressure distribution are determined. It is found that the pressure drag dominates the shear drag except for small aspect ratios. Thus, geometry plays a decisive role in the choice of using the Darcy equation or the Darcy-Brinkman equation. The results are important for the determination of flow resistance of a non-homogeneous porous medium which has solid inclusions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49846,"journal":{"name":"Mechanics Research Communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mechanics Research Communications","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009364132400079X","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MECHANICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper studies the flow over a solid inclusion embedded in a porous medium of low permeability. We study Rankine bodies which represent circular cylinders and spheres when the aspect ratio is one, and thin plates and almost uniform rods when the aspect ratio is small. Using boundary layer theory, the flow field and pressure distribution are determined. It is found that the pressure drag dominates the shear drag except for small aspect ratios. Thus, geometry plays a decisive role in the choice of using the Darcy equation or the Darcy-Brinkman equation. The results are important for the determination of flow resistance of a non-homogeneous porous medium which has solid inclusions.
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