This PhD thesis focuses on unsteady porous-media flows. The applicability of the unsteady Darcy equation is analyzed with the help of direct numerical simulations for simple unsteady flow after a step change in pressure gradient and oscillatory flows. The actual time scale can be derived from volume-averaging the balance equation of the kinetic energy. Moreover, the onset of the non-linear effects and the applicability of the unsteady Forchheimer correction term during acceleration in the non-linear regime is investigated.
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This PhD thesis focuses on unsteady porous-media flows. The applicability of the unsteady Darcy equation is analyzed with the help of direct numerical simulations for simple unsteady flow after a step change in pressure gradient and oscillatory flows. The actual time scale can be derived from volume-averaging the balance equation of the kinetic energy. Moreover, the onset of the non-linear effects and the applicability of the unsteady Forchheimer correction term during acceleration in the non-li...
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