Determination of permeability using a classic Darcy water column

Wadsworth, Fabian B.; Vossen, Caron E. J.; Schmid, Diana; Colombier, Mathieu; Heap, Michael J.; Scheu, Betty und Dingwell, Donald B. (2020): Determination of permeability using a classic Darcy water column. In: American Journal of Physics, Bd. 88, Nr. 1: S. 20-24

Abstract

Permeability is a macroscopic property of materials with a percolating pore phase, such as many rocks and filters. We describe a simple experiment for the empirical determination of permeability using a low-cost method similar to that used by Darcy. We advocate the use of controlled cylindrical sintered filters, for which there is theoretical constraint of the permeability as a function of porosity, against which empirical results can be compared. The methodology presented here provides a step-by-step approach to laboratory experiments and numerical techniques for fitting a linear equation to data and is appropriate for undergraduate Physics, Earth Science, or Engineering courses. (C) 2020 American Association of Physics Teachers.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Geowissenschaften > Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie
• ISSN: 0002-9505
• Sprache: Englisch