Fluid-Driven Deformation of a Soft Granular Material

Compressing a porous, fluid-filled material drives the interstitial fluid out of the pore space, as when squeezing water out of a kitchen sponge. Inversely, injecting fluid into a porous material can deform the solid structure, as when fracturing a shale for natural gas recovery. These poromechanica...

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Main Authors: Christopher W. MacMinn, Eric R. Dufresne, John S. Wettlaufer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2015-02-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.5.011020