Abstract
Fluid extraction from porous media by a slender permeable prolate-spheroid is analyzed. It is found that the flux density along the spheroid-reservoir surface increases with the sharpness of the spheroid tip; and the fluid production rate is significantly higher than that predicted by the cylinder model used in the literature. It is shown that the flow in the reservoir is a superposition of a confocal flow and a redistributive flow, with only the confocal flow being productive. For high spheroid-to-reservoir permeability ratios, there exists an optimum length-to-radius ratio that maximizes fluid production rate for a given spheroid body volume.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 124-130 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Extreme Mechanics Letters |
Volume | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1 2015 |
Keywords
- Fluid extraction
- Porous media
- Slender body
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Bioengineering
- Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous)
- Engineering (miscellaneous)
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering