Geological Fluid Dynamics: Sub-surface Flow and Reactions
Cambridge University Press, 2/19/2009
EAN 9780521865555, ISBN10: 0521865557
Hardcover, 298 pages, 25.3 x 17.9 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
This book is the long-awaited successor to Owen M. Phillips's classic textbook, Flow and Reactions in Permeable Rocks, published in 1991. In the intervening eighteen years between the two, significant advances have been made to our understanding of subterranean flow, especially through the vast amount of research into underground storage of nuclear waste and aquifer pollution. This new book integrates and extends these modern ideas and techniques and applies them to the physics and chemistry of sub-surface flows in water-saturated, sandy and rocky media. It describes essential scientific concepts and tools for hydrologists and public health ecologists concerned with present day flow and transport, and also for geologists who interpret present day patterns of mineralization in terms of fluid flow in the distant past. The book is ideal for graduate students and professionals in hydrology, water resources, and aqueous geochemistry.
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The basic principles
3. Patterns of flow
4. Flows with buoyancy variations
5. Patterns of reaction with flow
6. Extensions and examples
References
Index.
All reviews are from Owen Phillips's Flow and Reactions in Permeable Rocks: '... flow through porous media is of central importance to areas of petroleum, mining, groundwater and chemical engineering. The clarity and sparkle of the presentation are such that this book deserves to become one of the standard texts in these areas ... an extremely well-written and thought-provoking book ... It is likely to have considerable influence on future research.' Herbert E. Huppert, Journal of Fluid Mechanics '... required reading for anyone interested in the field of flow through porous media and phenomena allied to, or modified by, such flows. The basic equations are spelled out very clearly, and the surrounding verbal descriptions of what is going on from a physical/chemical perspective are equally good ... I could only wish that all books (including my own) could be written with such clarity of thought and word craft.' Ian Lerche, Geophysics '... a truly good book that I can recommend to graduate students and researchers seriously interested in understanding rock-fluid interactions and the patterns that result.' Bernard P. Boudreau, Geochimica et Cosmochimica '... will undoubtedly establish itself as a core text for both students and researchers.' Lev Truskinovsky, PAGEOPH