Geological Fluid Dynamics
Sub-surface Flow and Reactions

Describes fluid flow, transport and contamination in rocks and sediments, for graduate students and professionals in hydrology, water resources, geochemistry.

Owen M. Phillips (Author)

9781108462068, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 March 2018

297 pages
24.5 x 17 x 2 cm, 0.54 kg

'… Phillips' prose is lucid and graceful and the book is a pleasure to read … a hallmark of Dr Phillips' approach is simple physically insightful, and often analytically tractable mathematical descriptions. His arguments for relatively simple models are clearly expressed … It will definitely find a prominent place on my bookshelf as a useful guide to first-order quantitative approaches.' American Journal of Science

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.

Subject Areas: Civil engineering, surveying & building [TN], Mechanics of fluids [TGMF], Mechanics of solids [TGMD], Hydrology & the hydrosphere [RBK], Geochemistry [RBGK], Soil science, sedimentology [RBGB]