Modeling of Flow and Transport in Saturated and Unsaturated Porous Media

Numerical Model for Saturated-Unsaturated Flow in Deformable Porous Media

An integrated finite difference algorithm is presented for numerically solving the governing equation of saturated-unsaturated flow in deformable porous media. In recognition that stability of the explicit equation is a local phenomenon a mixed explicit-implicit procedure is used for marching in the time domain. In this scheme the explicit changes in potential are first computed for all element...

Modelling microscale flow and colloid transport in saturated porous media

International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713455064 Modelling microscale flow and colloid transport in saturated porous media Hui Gao a; Jie Han b; Yan Jin b; Lian-Ping Wang a a Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE,...

Solute transport during cyclic flow in saturated porous media

We consider materials with large pores interconnected by thin long channels saturated with an incompressible fluid. In the absence of fluid flow, solute transport in the porous network is diffusion controlled, however, solute transport can be enhanced when the porous network is subjected to a cyclic flow with zero time average velocity. We develop a mathematical model to analyze this physical p...

Modeling ion transport mechanisms in unsaturated porous media

Three-dimensional microscale flow simulation and colloid transport modeling in saturated soil porous media

Transport of sub-micron colloid particles in soil porous media has been mostly studied numerically with unit-cell-based grain-scale geometries. In this study, we develop a more general approach by combining a multiple-grain pore-scale flow simulation with Lagrangian tracking of individual colloids. First, two numerical methods are applied simultaneously to solve viscous flows in a channel parti...