Solution

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A stationary microporous network removes fluid momentum through linear drag rather than through a domain-scale viscous stress. With , the single-scale force estimate becomes
This drag-limited hydrodynamic coarsening closure uses a fixed isotropic drag coefficient and domain sizes large compared with the pore scale. The only length and time made from are
Indeed , while the choice of equates inertial and drag prefactors. With and , all force terms share . Therefore
As before, a parameter-free function of this one argument refers to the asymptotic advective scaling model with fixed morphology and negligible extra scales. Retaining the diffusive mobility or resolved network geometry can introduce additional dimensionless parameters. The original does not remain as an independent viscous coefficient after the stipulated replacement.

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