A homogenised model for the motion of evaporating fronts in porous media
Evaporation within porous media is both a multiscale and interface-driven process, since the phase change at the evaporating interfaces within the pores generates a vapour flow and depends on the transport of vapour through the porous medium. While homogenised models of flow and chemical transport i...
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| description | Evaporation within porous media is both a multiscale and interface-driven process, since the phase change at the evaporating interfaces within the pores generates a vapour flow and depends on the transport of vapour through the porous medium. While homogenised models of flow and chemical transport in porous media allow multiscale processes to be modelled efficiently, it is not clear how the multiscale effects impact the interface conditions required for these homogenised models. In this paper, we derive a homogenised model, including effective interface conditions, for the motion of an evaporation front through a porous medium, using a combined homogenisation and boundary layer analysis. This analysis extends previous work for a purely diffusive problem to include both gas flow and the advective–diffusive transport of material. We investigate the effect that different microscale models describing the chemistry of the evaporation have on the homogenised interface conditions. In particular, we identify a new effective parameter, L, the average microscale interface length, which modifies the effective evaporation rate in the homogenised model. Like the effective diffusivity and permeability of a porous medium, L may be found by solving a periodic cell problem on the microscale. We also show that the different microscale models of the interface chemistry result in fundamentally different fine-scale behaviour at, and near, the interface. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:53dffcc8-021f-4357-b195-fb93393b39402023-07-24T07:43:10ZA homogenised model for the motion of evaporating fronts in porous mediaJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:53dffcc8-021f-4357-b195-fb93393b3940EnglishSymplectic ElementsCambridge University Press2023Luckins, EKBreward, CGriffiths, IPlease, CEvaporation within porous media is both a multiscale and interface-driven process, since the phase change at the evaporating interfaces within the pores generates a vapour flow and depends on the transport of vapour through the porous medium. While homogenised models of flow and chemical transport in porous media allow multiscale processes to be modelled efficiently, it is not clear how the multiscale effects impact the interface conditions required for these homogenised models. In this paper, we derive a homogenised model, including effective interface conditions, for the motion of an evaporation front through a porous medium, using a combined homogenisation and boundary layer analysis. This analysis extends previous work for a purely diffusive problem to include both gas flow and the advective–diffusive transport of material. We investigate the effect that different microscale models describing the chemistry of the evaporation have on the homogenised interface conditions. In particular, we identify a new effective parameter, L, the average microscale interface length, which modifies the effective evaporation rate in the homogenised model. Like the effective diffusivity and permeability of a porous medium, L may be found by solving a periodic cell problem on the microscale. We also show that the different microscale models of the interface chemistry result in fundamentally different fine-scale behaviour at, and near, the interface. |
| spellingShingle | Luckins, EK Breward, C Griffiths, I Please, C A homogenised model for the motion of evaporating fronts in porous media |
| title | A homogenised model for the motion of evaporating fronts in porous media |
| title_full | A homogenised model for the motion of evaporating fronts in porous media |
| title_fullStr | A homogenised model for the motion of evaporating fronts in porous media |
| title_full_unstemmed | A homogenised model for the motion of evaporating fronts in porous media |
| title_short | A homogenised model for the motion of evaporating fronts in porous media |
| title_sort | homogenised model for the motion of evaporating fronts in porous media |
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