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Large-scale model of flow in heterogeneous and hierarchical porous media

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Heterogeneous porous structures are very often encountered in natural environments, bioremediation processes among many others. Reliable models for momentum transport are crucial whenever mass transport or convective heat occurs in these systems. In this work, we derive a large-scale average model for incompressible single-phase flow in heterogeneous and hierarchical soil porous media composed of two distinct porous regions embedding a solid impermeable structure. The model, based on the local mechanical equilibrium assumption between the porous regions, results in a unique momentum transport equation where the global effective permeability naturally depends on the permeabilities at the intermediate mesoscopic scales and therefore includes the complex hierarchical structure of the soil. The associated closure problem is numerically solved for various configurations and properties of the heterogeneous medium. The results clearly show that the effective permeability increases with the volume fraction of the most permeable porous region. It is also shown that the effective permeability is sensitive to the dimensionality spatial arrangement of the porous regions and in particular depends on the contact between the impermeable solid and the two porous regions.
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hal-01584000 , version 1 (08-09-2017)

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Morgan Chabanon, Francisco J. Valdés-Parada, J. Alberto Ochoa-Tapia, Benoît Goyeau. Large-scale model of flow in heterogeneous and hierarchical porous media. Advances in Water Resources, 2017, 109, pp.41-57. ⟨10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.08.018⟩. ⟨hal-01584000⟩
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