An analytical homogenization method for heterogeneous porous materials

The objective of this work is to develop an analytical homogenization method to estimate the effective mechanical properties of fluid-filled porous media with periodic microstructure. The method is based on the equivalent inclusion concept of homogenization applied earlier for solid–solid mixture. It is assumed that porous media are described by the poroelastic constitutive law developed by Biot where porosity is a material parameter. By solving the governing equations of poroelasticity in Fourier transformed domain, the relation between periodic strain and eigenstrain in porous media is established. This relation is subsequently used in an average consistency condition involving both solid and fluid phase stresses and strains. The geometry of the porous microstructure is captured in the g-integral. This homogenization method can also be applied to estimate the equivalent properties of solid–fluid mixture where a pure solid and fluid can be modeled by assuming very low and high porosity, respectively. Several examples are considered to establish this new method by comparing with other existing analytical and numerical methods of homogenization. As an application, poroelastic properties of cortical bone fibril are estimated and compared with previously computed values.     

A Model for Flow and Deformation in Unsaturated Swelling Porous Media

A thermomechanical theory for multiphase transport in unsaturated swelling porous media is developed on the basis of Hybrid Mixture Theory (saturated systems can also be modeled as a special case of this general theory). The aim is to comprehensively and non-empirically describe the effect of viscoelastic deformation on fluid transport (and vice versa) for swelling porous materials. Three phases are considered in the system: the swelling solid matrix s, liquid l, and air a. The Coleman–Noll procedure is used to obtain the restrictions on the form of the constitutive equations. The form of Darcy’s law for the fluid phase, which takes into account both Fickian and non-Fickian transport, is slightly different from the forms obtained by other researchers though all the terms have been included. When the fluid phases interact with the swelling solid porous matrix, deformation occurs. Viscoelastic large deformation of the solid matrix is investigated. A simple form of differential-integral equation is obtained for the fluid transport under isothermal conditions, which can be coupled with the deformation of the solid matrix to solve for transport in an unsaturated system. The modeling theory thus developed, which involves two-way coupling of the viscoelastic solid deformation and fluid transport, can be applied to study the processing of biopolymers, for example, soaking of foodstuffs and stress-crack predictions. Moreover, extension and modification of this modeling theory can be applied to study a vast variety of problems, such as drying of gels, consolidation of clays, drug delivery, and absorption of liquids in diapers.     

Local Thermal Non-Equilibrium and Heterogeneity Effects on the Onset of Convection in a Layered Porous Medium

The effect of local thermal non-equilibrium on the onset of convection in a porous medium consisting of two horizontal layers is studied analytically. Linear stability theory is applied. Variations of permeability, fluid conductivity, solid conductivity, interphase heat transfer coefficient and porosity are considered. It is found that heterogeneity of permeability and fluid conductivity have a major effect, heterogeneity of interphase heat transfer coefficient and porosity have a lesser effect, while heterogeneity of solid conductivity is relatively unimportant.     

A discrete forcing method dedicated to moving bodies in two‐phase flow

The numerical simulation of interaction between structures and two‐phase flows is a major concern for many industrial applications. To address this challenge, the motion of structures has to be tracked accurately. In this work, a discrete forcing method based on a porous medium approach is proposed to follow a nondeformable rigid body with an imposed velocity by using a finite‐volume Navier‐Stokes solver code dedicated to multiphase flows and based on a two‐fluid approach. To deal with the action reaction principle at the solid wall interfaces in a conservative way, a porosity is introduced allowing to locate the solid and insuring no diffusion of the fluid‐structure interface. The volumetric fraction equilibrium is adapted to this novelty. Mass and momentum balance equations are formulated on a fixed Cartesian grid. Interface tracking is addressed in detail going from the definition of the porosity to the changes in the discretization of the momentum balance equation. This so‐called time‐ and space‐dependent porosity method is then validated by using analytical and elementary test cases.     

Local Thermal Non-equilibrium and Heterogeneity Effects on the Onset of Convection in an Internally Heated Porous Medium

The effect of local thermal non-equilibrium on the onset of convection in a porous medium consisting of two horizontal layers, each internally heated, is studied analytically. Linear stability theory is applied. Variations of permeability, fluid thermal conductivity, solid thermal conductivity, source strength in the solid and fluid phases, interphase heat-transfer coefficient and porosity are considered. It is found that heterogeneity of permeability, fluid thermal conductivity and source strength in the fluid phase have a major effect; heterogeneity of interphase heat-transfer coefficient and porosity have a lesser effect, while heterogeneity of solid thermal conductivity and source strength in the solid phase are relatively unimportant.     

水饱和岩石中爆炸应力波传播的数值模拟

基于连续介质力学和不相融混合物理论,假定组分间无相对运动,采用B-W-N-B有效应力准则,在屈服面中引入孔隙影响因子,提出了一种多孔含水介质流固耦合的本构模型,并给出了孔隙的演化方程,对水饱和凝灰岩介质中的爆炸应力波传播作了数值模拟。数值计算给出的应力波形与实测结果有良好的一致性。采用本文中所述流固耦合本构模型,可很好地预测水饱和岩石中爆炸波的演化规律。     

Thermo-Chemo-Electro-Mechanical Formulation of Saturated Charged Porous Solids

A thermo-chemo-electro-mechanical formulation of quasi-static finite deformation of swelling incompressible porous media is derived from a mixture theory including the volume fraction concept. The model consists of an electrically charged porous solid saturated with an ionic solution. Incompressible deformation is assumed. The mixture as a whole is assumed locally electroneutral. Different constituents following different kinematic paths are defined: solid, fluid, anions, cations and neutral solutes. Balance laws are derived for each constituent and for the mixture as a whole. A Lagrangian form of the second law of thermodynamics for incompressible porous media is used to derive the constitutive restrictions of the medium. The material properties are shown to be contained in one strain energy function and a matrix of frictional tensors. A principle of reversibility results from the constitutive restrictions. Existing theories of swelling media should be evaluated with respect to this principle.     

海洋地震工程流固耦合问题统一计算框架——————不规则界面情形

海底地震动场及海洋声场的模拟中,需要考虑复杂海床介质及海底地形的影响,涉及到海水、饱和海床、弹性基岩之间的相互耦合.传统的方法分别采用声波方程描述理想流体、Biot方程描述饱和海床、弹性波方程描述基岩,分别进行空间离散和界面耦合, 十分不便.本文基于理想流体、固体分别为饱和多孔介质的特殊情形(孔隙率分别为1和0),由饱和多孔介质的Biot方程可退化得到理想流体的声波方程和固体的弹性波方程.然后, 以饱和多孔介质方程为基础, 经集中质量有限元离散,严格考虑不同孔隙率的饱和多孔介质在不规则界面的耦合条件,通过求解法向和切向界面力的途径,建立了不同孔隙率的饱和多孔介质耦合情形的求解方法,将流体、固体、饱和多孔介质间的耦合问题纳入到统一计算框架,并编制了相应的三维并行分析程序.考虑海水--弹性基岩、海水--饱和海床--弹性基岩体系中凹陷地形情形,采用本文提出的统一计算框架, 结合透射边界条件,分析了P波入射时的动力反应, 并通过结果是否满足界面条件,验证了该统一计算框架的有效性以及并行计算的可行性.      

A micropolar mixture theory of multi-component porous media

A mixture theory is developed for multi-component micropolar porous media with a combination of the hybrid mixture theory and the micropolar continuum theory. The system is modeled as multi-component micropolar elastic solids saturated with multi- component micropolar viscous fluids. Balance equations are given through the mixture theory. Constitutive equations are developed based on the second law of thermodynamics and constitutive assumptions. Taking account of compressibility of solid phases, the volume fraction of fluid as an independent state variable is introduced in the free energy function, and the dynamic compatibility condition is obtained to restrict the change of pressure difference on the solid-fluid interface. The constructed constitutive equations are used to close the field equations. The linear field equations are obtained using a linearization procedure, and the micropolar thermo-hydro-mechanical component transport model is established. This model can be applied to practical problems, such as contaminant, drug, and pesticide transport. When the proposed model is supposed to be porous media, and both fluid and solid are single-component, it will almost agree with Eringen＇s model.     

Stokes flow past an assemblage of axisymmetric porous spherical shell-in-cell models: effect of stress jump condition

The quasisteady axisymmetrical flow of an incompressible viscous fluid past an assemblage of porous concentric spherical shell-in-cell model is studied. Boundary conditions on the cell surface that correspond to the Happel, Kuwabara, Kvashnin and Cunningham/Mehta-Morse models are considered. At the fluid-porous interfaces, the stress jump boundary condition for the tangential stresses along with continuity of normal stress and velocity components are employed. The Brinkman’s equation in the porous region and the Stokes equation for clear fluid are used. The hydrodynamic drag force acting on the porous shell by the external fluid in each of the four boundary conditions on the cell surface is evaluated. It is found that the normalized mobility of the particles (the hydrodynamic interaction among the porous shell particles) depends not only on the permeability of the porous shells and volume fraction of the porous shell particles, but also on the stress jump coefficient. As a limiting case, the drag force or mobility for a suspension of porous spherical shells reduces to those for suspensions of impermeable solid spheres and of porous spheres with jump.     

一维流体饱和粘弹性多孔介质层的动力响应

本文研究了不可压流体饱和粘弹性多孔介质层的一维动力响应问题。基于粘弹性理论和多孔介质理论，在流相和固相微观不可压、固相骨架服从粘弹性积分型本构关系和小变形的假定下，建立了不可压流体饱和粘弹性多孔介质层一维动力响应的数学模型，利用Laplace变换，求得了原初边值问题在变换空间中的解析解，并利用Laplace逆变换的Crump数值反演方法，得到原动力响应问题的数值解。数值研究了饱和标准线性粘弹性多孔介质层的动力响应，分析了固相位移、渗流速度、孔隙压力及固相有效应力等的响应特征。结果表明，与不可压流体饱和弹性多孔介质相同，不可压流体饱和粘弹性多孔介质中亦只存在一个纵波，并且固相骨架的粘性对动力行为有显著的影响。     

A linear dynamic model for a saturated porous medium

A linear isothermal dynamic model for a porous medium saturated by a Newtonian fluid is developed in the paper. In contrast to the mixture theory, the assumption of phase separation is avoided by introducing a single constitutive energy function for the porous medium. An important advantage of the proposed model is it can account for the couplings between the solid skeleton and the pore fluid. The mass and momentum balance equations are obtained according to the generalized mixture theory. Constitutive relations for the stress, the pore pressure are derived from the total free energy accounting for inter-phase interaction. In order to describe the momentum interaction between the fluid and the solid, a frequency independent Biot-type drag force model is introduced. A temporal variable porosity model with relaxation accounting for additional attenuation is introduced for the first time. The details of parameter estimation are discussed in the paper. It is demonstrated that all the material parameters in our model can be estimated from directly measurable phenomenological parameters. In terms of the equations of motion in the frequency domain, the wave velocities and the attenuations for the two P waves and one S wave are calculated. The influences of the porosity relaxation coefficient on the velocities and attenuation coefficients of the three waves of the porous medium are discussed in a numerical example.     

海洋地震工程流固耦合问题统一计算框架

海底地震动的模拟以及海洋工程结构的地震反应分析中,涉及到海水、饱和海床、弹性基岩、结构之间的相互耦合.传统的方法分别采用声波方程描述理想流体、Biot方程描述饱和海床、弹性波方程描述基岩和结构,分别考虑相互之间的耦合,十分不便.本文基于理想流体、固体分别为饱和多孔介质的特殊情形(孔隙率分别为1和0),由饱和多孔介质的Biot方程可退化得到理想流体的声波方程和固体的弹性波方程.然后,以饱和多孔介质方程为基础,经集中质量有限元离散,考虑不同孔隙率的饱和多孔介质之间耦合的一般情形,建立了该耦合情形的求解方法.进一步论证了该一般情形的耦合计算方法可分别退化到流体与固体、流体与饱和多孔介质、固体与饱和多孔介质之间的耦合计算,从而将流体、固体、饱和多孔介质间的耦合问题纳入到统一计算框架,并编制了相应的三维并行分析程序.以P-SV波垂直入射时,半无限层状海水-饱和海床、海水-弹性基岩、海水-饱和海床-弹性基岩三种情形的动力分析为例,采用统一计算框架结合透射边界条件进行求解,并与传递矩阵方法得到的解进行对比,验证了该统一计算框架的有效性以及并行计算的可行性.      

Pressure-driven and electroosmotic non-Newtonian flows through microporous media via lattice Boltzmann method

The lattice Boltzmann method is developed to simulate the pressure-driven flow and electroosmotic flow of non-Newtonian fluids in porous media based on the representative elementary volume scale. The flow through porous media was simulated by including the porosity into the equilibrium distribution function and adding a non-Newtonian force term to the evolution equation. The non-Newtonian behavior is considered based on the Herschel–Bulkley model. The velocity results for pressure-driven non-Newtonian flow agree well with the analytical solutions. For the electroosmotic flow, the influences of porosity, solid particle diameter, power law exponent, yield stress and electric parameters are investigated. The results demonstrate that the present lattice Boltzmann model is capable of modeling non-Newtonian flow through porous media.     

Nonlinear Pressure Diffusion in Flow of Compressible Liquids Through Porous Media

In the flow of liquids through porous media, nonlinear effects arise from the dependence of the fluid density, porosity, and permeability on pore pressure, which are commonly approximated by simple exponential functions. The resulting flow equation contains a squared gradient term and an exponential dependence of the hydraulic diffusivity on pressure. In the limiting case where the porosity and permeability moduli are comparable, the diffusivity is constant, and the squared gradient term can be removed by introducing a new variable y, depending exponentially on pressure. The published transformations that have been used for this purpose are shown to be special cases of the Cole–Hopf transformation, differing in the choice of integration constants. Application of Laplace transformation to the linear diffusion equation satisfied by y is considered, with particular reference to the effects of the transformation on the boundary conditions. The minimum fluid compressibilities at which nonlinear effects become significant are determined for steady flow between parallel planes and cylinders at constant pressure. Calculations show that the liquid densities obtained from the simple compressibility equation of state agree to within 1% with those obtained from the highly accurate Wagner-Pru?  equation of state at pressures to 20 MPa and temperatures approaching 600 K, suggesting possible applications to some geothermal systems.     

Linear and non-linear double diffusive convection in a rotating porous layer using a thermal non-equilibrium model

Double diffusive convection in a fluid-saturated rotating porous layer heated from below and cooled from above is studied when the fluid and solid phases are not in local thermal equilibrium, using both linear and non-linear stability analyses. The Darcy model that includes the time derivative and Coriolis terms is employed as momentum equation. A two-field model that represents the fluid and solid phase temperature fields separately is used for energy equation. The onset criterion for stationary, oscillatory and finite amplitude convection is derived analytically. It is found that small inter-phase heat transfer coefficient has significant effect on the stability of the system. There is a competition between the processes of thermal and solute diffusions that causes the convection to set in through either oscillatory or finite amplitude mode rather than stationary. The effect of solute Rayleigh number, porosity modified conductivity ratio, Lewis number, diffusivity ratio, Vadasz number and Taylor number on the stability of the system is investigated. The non-linear theory based on the truncated representation of Fourier series method predicts the occurrence of subcritical instability in the form of finite amplitude motions. The effect of thermal non-equilibrium on heat and mass transfer is also brought out.     

Non-Linear Two Dimensional Double Diffusive Convection in a Rotating Porous Layer Saturated by a Viscoelastic Fluid

Double diffusive convection in a rotating anisotropic porous layer, saturated by a viscoelastic fluid, heated from below and cooled from above has been studied making linear and non-linear stability analyses. The fluid and solid phases are considered to be in equilibrium. In momentum equation, we have employed the Darcy equation which includes both time derivative and Coriolis terms. The linear theory based on normal mode method is considered to find the criteria for the onset of stationary and oscillatory convection. A weak non-linear analysis based on minimal representation of truncated Fourier series analysis containing only two terms has been used to find the Nusselt number and Sherwood number as functions of time. We have solved the finite amplitude equations using a numerical scheme. The results obtained, during the above analyses, have been presented graphically and the effects of various parameters on heat and mass transfer have been discussed. Finally, we have drawn the steady and unsteady streamlines, isotherms, and isohalines for various parameters.