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Volumen Elemental Representativo
continuum concept breaks down. We plotted the fluid mass over the volume
of sampling in Figure 3.5, where ! = . The molecules are assumed to be
uniformly placed in space. When the sampling volume is very small as it is
suggested by the term infinitesimal used routinely in this connection in fluid
mechanics texts, the fluid mass over volume ratio becomes undefined. When
the sampling volume is at least of VP , we obtain a fictitious smooth medium
(instead of the molecules). Unlike the porous medium in which the solid
matrix is immobile, the concept of fluid is also associated with time average
as well since the molecules are moving about at any given instant even though
Kn = (3.6)
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a geomateriales and when Kn is greater than unity, we have what is known as the Knudsen flow.
In addition, when the molecules are large (macromolecules or polymers) and
the dimension between the confining walls is small, the continuum concept
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La definicin de tensin en un
medio poroso
# * = #
& &
' '
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Principio de Arqumedes
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El principio de Arqumedes en un
medio poroso saturado: tensin efectiva
Medios porosos
# #
+ ' = * = = '
Crtica al concepto de
tensin efectiva
Poroelasticity ' = (1 s )u
Agua y granos perfectamente incompresibles C sandstone
En muchas
aplicaciones de
la geomecnica
computacional,
el empleo de la
tensin efectiva Cs
limita la capacidad (1 )u
u C
predictiva
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(Nur & Byerlee, 1971)