New SFB 1313 publication, published in "RAMM - Proceedings in Mathematics and Mechanics". The work has been developed within the SFB 1313 research project B02.
"A historical review on porous-media research"
Authors
- Wolfgang Ehlers (University of Stuttgart, former principal investigator of SFB 1313 research project B02)
Abstract
At the end of the 18th century, serious problems in dyke constructions in North-ern Germany and the need to understand coupled solid-water problems initiatedfirst attempts to describe porous media. Many attempts followed until a soundTheory of Porous Media (TPM) was born on the basis of continuum mechanicsofmulti-componentmaterialswithmulti-physicalproperties.Thepresentarticleroughly describes the development of the TPM from its origins to contemporaryapplications, thus presenting a short historical review of porous-media research.

Wolfgang Ehlers
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