Influence of Adsorption and Desorption of Gas Micronuclei on the Nature of the Flow of a Gassy Liquid through a Porous Medium

The problem of gassy liquid flow through a porous medium is considered theoretically. Periodic oscillations of the liquid and gas flow rate observed experimentally are attributable to the processes of sorption and desorption of gas micronuclei on the walls of the pore space and their diffusion. In the kinetic equation employed the desorption rate is directly proportional to the adsorbed micronucleus concentration and the seepage rate, and the adsorption rate is directly proportional to the product of the mobile micronucleus concentration and the free site concentration on the pore surfaces. Steady-state solutions of this equation are investigated. It is shown that periodic oscillations of the flow rate can manifest themselves only when the processes of micronuclei adsorption predominate over the desorption processes.