On the developments of Darcy's law to include inertial and slip effects

Didier Lasseux (1) , Francisco J Valdés-Parada

1 I2M - Institut de Mécanique et d'Ingénierie de Bordeaux

The empirical Darcy law describing flow in porous media, whose convincing theoretical justification was proposed almost 130 years after its original publication in 1856, has however been extended to account for particular flow conditions. This article reviews historical developments aimed at including inertial and slip effects (respectively, when the Reynolds and Knudsen numbers are not exceedingly small compared to unity). Despite the early empirical extensions to include inertia and slip effects, it is striking to observe that clear formal derivations of physical models to account for these effects were reported only recently.

Domaines: Sciences de l'environnement; Planète et Univers [physics]; Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]; Milieux fluides et réactifs; Génie des procédés; Mécanique [physics.med-ph]

Didier Lasseux, Francisco J Valdés-Parada. On the developments of Darcy's law to include inertial and slip effects. Comptes Rendus Mécanique, 2017, 345 (9), pp.660-669. ⟨10.1016/j.crme.2017.06.005⟩. ⟨hal-03140868⟩