Antonio Rodríguez de Castro

Toward a New Method of Porosimetry: Principles and Experiments

Current experimental methods used to determine pore size distributions (PSD) of porous media present several drawbacks such as toxicity of the employed fluids (e.g., mercury porosimetry). The theoretical basis of a new method to obtain the PSD by injecting yield stress fluids through porous media and measuring the flow rate

Characterizing Porous Media with the Yield Stress Fluids Porosimetry Method

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Non-Darcian flow of shear-thinning fluids through packed beads: Experiments and predictions using Forchheimer's law and Ergun's equation

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Flow of yield stress and Carreau fluids through rough-walled rock fractures: Prediction and experiments: PREDICTING COMPLEX FLOW IN FRACTURES

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Flow of yied stress fluids through porous media : simulations, experiments and applications

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