Electrokinetic phenomena in saturated compact clays.
The membrane potential, the pressure difference, and the concentration difference induced by an applied concentration gradient through samples of compact clay were measured as functions of sodium chloride concentration and of porosity. The results of some previous numerical predictions are recalled to be functions of a characteristic length scale which can be derived from conductivity and permeability. Generally, the experimental data were in agreement with these numerical predictions. Therefore, nondiagonal coupling coefficients can be derived with acceptable precision from the diagonal coefficients.
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Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Laboratoire des Milieux Poreux et Fracturés, Boîte 89, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris cedex 05, France.
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