Abstract
A new theory is proposed for the continuum modeling of liquid flow through a porous elastic solid. The solid and the voids are assumed to jointly constitute the macroscopic solid phase, while the liquid volume fraction is included as a separate state variable. A finite element implementation is employed to assess the predictive capacity of the proposed theory, with particular emphasis on the mechanical response of Nafion® membranes to the flow of water. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 553-562 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Computational Mechanics |
Volume | 52 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 29 2013 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01Acknowledgements: This work was supported in part by an Academic Excellence Alliance grant awarded by the KAUST Office of Competitive Research Fund under the title "An Integrated Theoretical and Computational Study of Certain Mechanical and Chemical Properties of Nafion Membranes".
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.