Surface permeability of particulate porous media

Sirimark, P., Lukyanov, A. and Pryer, T. (2019) Surface permeability of particulate porous media. Transport in porous media, 130 (2). pp. 637-654. ISSN 0169-3913 doi: 10.1007/s11242-019-01332-9

Abstract/Summary

The dispersion process in particulate porous media at low saturation levels takes place over the surface elements of constituent particles and, as we have found previously by comparison with experiments, can be accurately described by super-fast non-linear diffusion partial differential equations. To enhance the predictive power of the mathematical model in practical applications, one requires the knowledge of the effective surface permeability of the particle-in-contact ensemble, which can be directly related with the macroscopic permeability of the particulate media. We have shown previously that permeability of a single particulate element can be accurately determined through the solution of the Laplace-Beltrami Dirichlet boundary-value problem. Here, we demonstrate how that methodology can be applied to study permeability of a randomly packed ensemble of interconnected particles. Using surface finite element techniques we examine numerical solutions to the Laplace-Beltrami problem set in the multiply-connected domains of interconnected particles. We are able to directly estimate tortuosity effects of the surface flows in the particle ensemble setting.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/85526
Identification Number/DOI	10.1007/s11242-019-01332-9
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Publisher	Springer
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