本书共九章，主要介绍了多孔介质中的流体。通过多孔介质的介绍引入了第一章的孔隙空间及孔隙度的几何学；第二章主要介绍了热力学，描写了热力学势与平衡以及热力学的基本性质；第三章通过对界面张力的描写介绍了固体的润湿和毛细现象；第四章介绍了一些现象，如融化、冷凝和结晶等；第五章和第六章分别介绍了管流和单相流动；第七章介绍了非承压含水层；第八章和第九章介绍了不饱和流和二相流等问题。本书可用作相关专业硕士研究生教材。

Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Symbols
1 Introduction
1.1 Porous materials
1.2 The geometry of the pore space and porosity
1.3 Pore sizes and the pore size distribution
1.4 Tortuosity
1.5 Guide to the reader
Further reading
2 Recap of thermodynamics
2.1 Fundamental equations
2.2 Thermodynamic potentials and equilibrium
2.3 Chemical potentials
Further reading
3 Wetting of solids and capillarity
3.1 Interfaces and interracial tension
3.2 Wetting and contact angle
3.3 Capillary pressure
3.4 Stresses in materials
Further reading
4 Phase transitiofis and confinement
4.1 Melting
4.2 Condensation
4.3 Crystallization
Further reading
5 Pipe flow
5.1 Stokes flow
5.2 Flow through a tube
Further reading
6 Single phase flow
6.1 Darcy's law
6.2 Permeability and geometry
6.3 Heterogeneity in the permeability
Further reading
7 Unconfined aquifers
7.1 Dupuit equation
7.2 Steady state applications and wells
Further reading
8 Unsaturated flow
8.1 Capillary suction
8.2 Beyond the sharp front approach
8.3 Capillary suction revisited
8.4 The role of vapor transport
Further reading
9 Two phase flow
9.1 Front motion
9.2 The front zone
9.3 Relative permeability and residual saturation
9.4 Viscous fingering
Further reading
Appendices
A Thermodynamic potentials
B Energy of a liquid film
C Interfacial areas of a spherical cap
D Bruggeman equation
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