Evaluating the Impact of the Covariance of the Friction and Potential Gradient on Describing the Infiltration Process

During infiltration of water in soil, menisci form at the interface of water, grains, and air in the pores, inducing suction due to surface tension. Due to the random distribution of interconnected pores of different sizes, characteristic of porous media, differences in suction and friction inside pores give a diffusing infiltration front. The process of infiltration is often simulated by solving Richards’ equation in which the water flux is calculated with Darcy’s law. Underlying Darcy’s law is the assumption that the gradients in flow potential and the flow resistance due to viscous forces are independent from each other. This paper shows that these parameters are dependent and negatively correlated. A new method for calculating flows in unsaturated porous media has been developed to evaluate the impact of the covariance on infiltration predictions. The results show that the impact is significant and leads to a reduction in infiltration rate and mean friction experienced during infiltration. The method thereby provides a physical explanation for the subdiffusion observed during water infiltration in soil and is consequently expected to provide more insights into the processes of infiltration.     

低渗透多孔介质中的非线性渗流理论简

文中论述了低渗透性多孔介质中非线性渗流理论的几个问题,阐明了渗流流体的性质,指出了多孔介质对流体通过的选择性,提出了新的非线性渗流方程,用实验资料对其进行了验证,分析了该方程演变功能,表明它可以描述各种渗流规律.该方程的各项参数都可从实验中直接得到,应用方便,并且参数的物理意义明确.     

Stokes' first problem for the fourth order fluid in a porous half

In this study, the flow of a fourth order fluid in a porous half space is modeled. By using the modified Darcy's law, the flow over a suddenly moving flat plate is studied numerically. The influence of various parameters of interest on the velocity profile is revealed.     

Coriolis Effects on Filtration Law in Rotating Porous Media

We investigate the filtration law of incompressible viscous Newtonian fluids in rigid non-inertial porous media, for example, rotating porous media. The filtration law is obtained by upscaling the flow at the pore scale. We use the method of multiple scale expansions which gives rigorously the macroscopic behaviour without any prerequisite on the form of the macroscopic equations. For finite Ekman numbers the filtration law is shown to resemble a Darcy's law, but with a non-symmetric permeability tensor which depends on the angular velocity of the porous matrix. We obtain the filtration analog of the Hall effect. For large Ekman numbers the filtration law is a small correction to the classical Darcy's law. The corrector is antisymmetric. In this case we recover a structure of law which is similar to phenomenological laws introduced in the literature, but with a dissimilar effective coefficient.     

Rotating flow of a third grade fluid in a porous space with Hall current

This study investigates the rotating magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of a third-grade fluid in a porous space. Modified Darcy's law has been utilized for the flow modeling. The Hall effects are taken into consideration. The basic equations governing the flow are reduced to a highly nonlinear ordinary differential equation. This equation has been solved analytically by employing the homotopy analysis method (HAM). The effects of the various interesting parameters on the velocity distribution have been discussed.     

Infiltration of initially dry, deformable porous media

The present paper studies the infiltration of an incompressible liquid in an initially dry (or partially dry), deformable sponge-like material made of an incompressible constituent in the slug-flow approximation having in mind the application to some industrial processes involving flow through sponge-like materials and, in particular, some composite materials manufacturing processes. The resulting initial-boundary value problem is of Stefan type, with suitable interface conditions and evolution equations describing the position of the interfaces delimiting the saturated region within the porous material. Different models are then suggested in the saturated region, depending on the importance of the inertial terms and on the constitutive equation for the stress. Comparison of the simulation with known experimental results is satisfactory.     

Mixed convection of non-newtonian fluids from a vertical plate embedded in a porous medium

This paper investigates mixed free and forced convection of non-Newtonian fluids from a vertical isothermal plate embedded in a homogenous porous medium. A mathematical model is developed based on the modified Darcy's law and boundary-layer approximations, and the exact similarity solution is obtained as well as an integral solution. These two solutions agree within 3% for aiding flows and 10% for opposing flows. It is found that, non-Newtonian characteristics of fluids have appreciable influences on velocity profiles, temperature distributions and flow regimes.     

The influence of Hall current on the rotating oscillating flows of an Oldroyd-B fluid in a porous medium

In this article, analysis is presented to study the effect of Hall current on the rotating flow of a non-Newtonian fluid in a porous medium taking into consideration the modified Darcy's law. The Oldroyd-B fluid model is used to characterize the non-Newtonian fluid behavior. The governing equations for unsteady rotating flow have been modeled in a porous medium. The analysis includes the flows induced by general periodic oscillations and elliptic harmonic oscillations of a plate. The effect of the various emerging parameters is discussed on the velocity distribution. The analytical results are confirmed mathematically by giving comparison with previous studies in the literature. It is observed that the velocity distribution increases with an increase of Hall parameter. The behavior of permeability is similar to that of the Hall parameter.     

Transient oscillatory and constantly accelerated non-Newtonian flow in a porous medium

This paper looks at the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) analysis for transient flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid in a porous medium. The presented analysis takes into account the modified Darcy's law. The flow is induced due to constantly accelerated and oscillating plate. Expressions for the corresponding velocity field and the adequate tangential stress are determined by means of the Fourier sine transform. The influence of various parameters of interest on the velocity and tangential stress has been shown and discussed. A comparison for different kinds of fluids is also provided.     

Exact solutions of starting flows for second grade fluid in a porous medium

This paper concentrates on the unsteady flows of a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) second grade fluid filling a porous medium. The flow modeling involves modified Darcy's law. Three problems are considered. They are (i) starting flow due to an oscillating edge, (ii) starting flow in a duct of rectangular cross-section oscillating parallel to its length, and (iii) starting flow due to an oscillating pressure gradient. Analytical expressions of velocity field and corresponding tangential stresses are developed. These expressions are found to be significantly affected by the applied magnetic field, permeability of the porous medium and the material parameter of the fluid. Moreover, the influence of pertinent parameters on the flows is delineated and appropriate conclusions are drawn. Finally, a comparison is also made with the existing results in the literature.     

Primary and Secondary Infiltration of Wetting Liquid Sessile Droplet into Porous Medium

The infiltration of a wetting droplet into the porous medium is a two-step process referred to as primary and secondary infiltration. In the primary infiltration there is a free liquid present at the porous medium surface, and when no fluid is left on the surface, the secondary infiltration is initiated. In both situations the driving force is the capillary pressure that is influenced by the local medium heterogeneities. A capillary network model based on the micro-force balance is developed with the same formulation applied to both infiltrations. The only difference between the two is that the net liquid flow into the porous medium in the secondary infiltration is equal to zero. The primary infiltration starts as a single-phase (fully saturated) flow and may proceed as a multiphase flow. The multiphase flow emerges as the interface (flow front) becomes irregular in shape. The immobile clusters of the originally present phase can be locally formed due to entrapment. Throughout the infiltration, it was found that portions of the liquid phase can be detached from the main body of the liquid phase forming some isolated liquid ganglia that increase in number and decrease in size. The termination of the secondary infiltration occurs once the ganglia become immobile due to their reduction in size. From the transient solution, the changes in the liquid saturation and capillary pressure during the droplet infiltration are determined. The solution developed in this study is used to investigate the droplet infiltration dynamics. However, the solution can be used to study the flow in fuel cell, nano-arrays, composites, and printing.     

煤系页岩瓦斯吸附?解吸迟滞效应核磁共振谱实验研究

煤系页岩瓦斯主要以吸附态和游离态形式存在, 其解吸过程相对吸附过程具有普遍滞后现象, 因此从微细观角度定量研究其吸附?附解吸迟滞规律对页岩气井后期稳产增产具有重要意义. 在前人研究基础上结合核磁共振谱理论推导出能够准确表征煤系页岩瓦斯吸附?解吸迟滞效应微细观评价模型, 并采用核磁共振谱测试技术, 以双鸭山盆地东保卫煤矿三采区36# 煤层底板煤系页岩为研究对象, 进行煤系页岩瓦斯吸附?解吸迟滞效应核磁共振谱实验, 模拟不同储层原位应力状态煤系页岩瓦斯迟滞效应发生全过程, 进一步对吸附态瓦斯、游离态瓦斯以及微细观方法测定的宏观瓦斯迟滞规律进行定量化研究, 并对其发生机理以及其对深部煤系页岩瓦斯开采影响进行了初步探究. 结果表明: 应力状态下吸附态和游离瓦斯均有滞后效应; 瓦斯宏观迟滞系数与平均有效应力呈幂函数关系, 而瓦斯宏观迟滞效应中由吸附态或游离态瓦斯引起的迟滞系数与平均有效应力关系均可采用二次多项式拟合; 孔裂隙应力损伤和微孔隙瓦斯扩散受限耦合或许是煤系页岩瓦斯吸附?解吸迟滞效应产生根本原因之一.      

Evaluation of the Darcy's law performance for two-fluid flow hydrodynamics in a particle debris bed using a lattice-Boltzmann model

In the present paper, multiphase flow dynamics in a porous medium are analyzed by employing the lattice-Boltzmann modeling approach. A two-dimensional formulation of a lattice-Boltzmann model, using a D2Q9 scheme, is used. Results of the FlowLab code simulation for single phase flow in porous media and for two-phase flow in a channel are compared with analytical solutions. Excellent agreement is obtained. Additionally, fluid-fluid interaction and fluid-solid interaction (wettability) are modeled and examined. Calculations are performed to simulate two-fluid dynamics in porous media, in a wide range of physical parameters of porous media and flowing fluids. It is shown that the model is capable of determining the minimum body force needed for the nonwetting fluid to percolate through the porous medium. Dependence of the force on the pore size, and geometry, as well as on the saturation of the nonwetting fluid is predicted by the model. In these simulations, the results obtained for the relative permeability coefficients indicate the validity of the reciprocity for the two coupling terms in the modified Darcy's law equations. Implication of the simulation results on two-fluid flow hydrodynamics in a decay-heated particle debris bed is discussed. Received on 1 December 1999     

Thermal analysis of micro heat pipes using a porous-medium model

Using Darcy's equation for two-phase flows in porous media and Laplace's capillary equation, a one-dimensional model of a micro heat pipe is developed to investigate its thermal and fluid-mechanical behaviors within its capillary limitation. The effects of various parameters are incorporated into the analysis. These parameters are: the capillary number, the charge level of the working fluid, the vapor-liquid viscosity ratio, contact angle, the relative lengths of the evaporator and condenser sections, the orientation of the micro heat pipe, and the Bond number. Furthermore, comparisons with existing experimental results show that the porous-medium model is reasonably adequate for the prediction of the capillary performance limit of a micro heat pipe. Received on 26 October 1998     

Numerical Simulation of Darcy and Forchheimer Force Distribution in a HBC Fuse

We present the breaking of a short-circuit current in a HBC fuse simulation based on an isentropic non-stationary model in a porous medium for a one dimensional geometry. The fluid flow is affected by the nature of the gas and by the morphology of the silica sand. To model the gas–silica sand interaction, we introduce two classical laws: the Darcy's law due to the viscous interaction and the Forchheimer's law due to the inertial force. Numerical simulations with realistic physical parameters have been performed using a finite volume scheme with a fractional step technique. We show the evolution of Darcy and Forchheimer forces during time and according to the position in the fuse. We place in prominent position the fact that either force is predominant in the fuse according to the time and the position which justifies a numerical treatment to cover all the situations.     

On Calculating a Translational Flow Through a System of Circular or Spherical Layers with Different Permeabilities

The problem of finding the potential of a translational flow through a system of circular or spherical layers in a porous medium obeying Darcy's law is considered. The permeability coefficients change stepwise across the interface. The method is based on deriving special recurrence relations which give a rational dependence of the potentials on the permeability coefficients suitable for specific calculations.     

Relaxation effects associated with the flow of a dense gas through a porous medium

Unsteady processes of gas and Newtonian liquid flow through porous media are usually described within the framework of the standard elastic regime model [1, 2]. At the same time, from general theoretical considerations it is clear that for fairly small characteristic times of variation of the pressure and the seepage velocity the elastic regime model loses its validity and more general relaxation flow models [3, 4] must be employed. It is therefore important to determine the limits of applicability of the elastic regime model. For this purpose the unsteady process of gas flow from one vessel to another through a porous medium has been investigated theoretically and experimentally for small pressure differences and absolute pressures up to 50 MPa. It is shown that the experimental results diverge sharply from the theoretical predictions based on the elastic regime model. It is therefore proposed that for unsteady processes a generalization of Darcy's law with a relaxation kernel be employed. From the results of the experiments it is possible to determine the parameters of the kernel characterizing the internal relaxation processes in the porous medium-dense gas system.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 1, pp. 105–113, January–February, 1991.     

On the Validity of Darcy's Law for Stable High-Concentration Displacements in Granular Porous Media

Recently, it has been suggested that Darcy's Law might not be applicable for modelling miscible, density-dependent flow in porous media. To investigate this, three sets of careful laboratory column experiments were performed on coarse and medium sands, consisting of upward displacement of water by sodium chloride solutions with concentrations ranging from 5 to 200g/l. Data on salt concentrations and water pressures were collected in horizontal transects along the flow direction. Salt concentration data were also collected in the influent and exit lines. The experimental data were analysed using a simplified approach based on Darcy's Law alone, applied with the assumption of a sharp interface. Darcy's Law was used to estimate porous medium permeability by fitting predictions to experimental data. Consistent estimates of permeability were obtained for each set of experiments. The results indicate that Darcy's Law adequately describes high concentration displacements through saturated coarse- and medium-grained porous media.     

Network Modeling of Non-Darcy Flow Through Porous Media

Darcy's law is inadequate for describing high-velocity gas flow in porous media, which occurs in the near well-bore region of high capacity gas and condensate reservoirs. This study is directed at understanding the non-Darcy flow behavior. A pore-level network model has been developed to describe high velocity flow. The inputs to the model are pore size distributions and network coordination numbers. The outputs are permeability, non-Darcy coefficient, tortuousity and porosity. The additional pressure gradient term is found to be proportional to the square of the velocity in accordance with the Forchheimer's equation. The correlation between the non-Darcy coefficient and other flow properties (the permeability, the porosity and the tortuousity) is found to depend on the morphological parameters being changed. General correlations are derived between these flow properties.     

MHD flows of a second grade fluid between two side walls perpendicular to a plate through a porous medium

Exact analytical solutions for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows of an incompressible second grade fluid in a porous medium are developed. The modified Darcy's law for second grade fluid has been used in the flow modelling. The Hall effect is taken into account. The exact solutions for the unsteady flow induced by the time-dependent motion of a plane wall between two side walls perpendicular to the plane has been constructed by means of Fourier sine transforms. The similar solutions for a Newtonian fluid, performing the same motion, appear as limiting cases of the solutions obtained here. The influence of various parameters of interest on the velocity and shear stress at the bottom wall has been shown and discussed through several graphs. A comparison between a Newtonian and a second grade fluids is also made.