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The basic laws to be applied to a flow in a porous medium are again the continuity relationship and the momentum equation. The momentum principle, expressed by the Navier-Stokes equations, is also theoretically valid for this kind of motion. However, because of the complexity of the boundary conditions (since V = 0 at the surface of every grain of the porous medium), this equation is no longer useful in this form. Some approximations and transformations must be performed.
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Le Méhauté, B. (1976). Flow in a Porous Medium: Law of Darcy. In: An Introduction to Hydrodynamics and Water Waves. Springer Study Edition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85567-2_9
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