7.2 TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW THROUGH POROUS MEDIA (SEEPAGE FLOW)

Formulation presented in this section is focused on the two-dimensional fluid flow analysis. However, the same formulation is applicable straightforwardly to two-dimensional torsion and two-dimensional steady state heat flow (in the absence of convection). At steady state, the governing differential equation for these problems can be written as

 

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Table 7.1 Analogy Between Two-Dimensional Seepage, Heat Flow and Torsional Analyses

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The primary unknown field ɸ is function of (X,Y ...

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