Non Newtonian Flow in Prous Media
11-15 mai 2026
Corsica, France - Cargèse (France)
The rheology of a fluid is characterized by its response to mechanical stress. While most fluids (water, air, etc.) have a linear response, this is not always the case for many fluids encountered in everyday life.
Examples include polymers, slurries, foams, emulsions, cements and certain biological fluids. Their ability to be deformed (shear rate) is no longer simply proportional to the applied stress. These fluids are referred to as non-Newtonian.
Because of their many applications in the geosciences, flows in porous media have been the subject of a considerable number of studies for over a century. Most of this work, however, has focused on Newtonian fluids in particuler water, air and oil. However, many applications involve one or more non-Newtonian fluids. In the environmental field, for example, we can cite the injection of foam into soils to extract pollutants, or the use of foam to block the transport of contaminants in the aquifers Another notable application in civil engineering concerns the injection of cement into soils to consolidate them.
Another field of application is biology and medicine. Many biological fluids, such as blood, mucus or sap, have non-Newtonian properties and are flowing through porous structure such as capillary networks, lungs, bones or wood.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts from a wide range of fields to share our challenges, methodological approaches and scientific advances to to improve physical knowledge and develop new theoretical, numerical and experimental approaches to complex fluid flows in porous media.
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