On internal coupling in dynamic equations of fluid-saturated porous solid (Q1069347)

Dynamic equations of a porous solid-fluid mixture have been studied accounting for the influence of the pore structure. It is shown that when a skeleton pore structure is characterized by two parameters volume porosity and the structural permeability tensor, the mixture can be considered as composed either of two physical components - the porous solid and the fluid, or two kinematic components - the first being the skeleton and the fluid trapped within, the second being the unimpeded fluid. During a deformation process, mass exchange between the kinematic components may appear, thus provoking the inertial coupling between them. The kinematic division of the solid-fluid mixture, contrary to the physical division, enables one to formulate the appropriate motion equations which include this inertial coupling.