Upscaling diffusion waves in porous media

Francisco J. Valdés-Parada, José Álvarez Ramírez and J. Alberto Ochoa-Tapia

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016, vol. 448, issue C, 57-67

Abstract: The aim of this work is to derive the effective-medium equations and to estimate the related effective diffusivities for diffusion waves in porous media. Effective diffusivities are estimated within the framework of the volume averaging method, where they are obtained from the solution of the associated closure problems in 2D and 3D periodic unit cells. The results showed that the transport of diffusion waves are governed by the diffusion and co-diffusion mechanisms of harmonic waves. In addition, numerical results showed that the effective diffusivities increase with frequency, while the effective co-diffusivities display a resonance-like behavior. Our results also indicate that geometry plays a more significant effect over the predictions of the co-diffusion coefficient at moderate frequencies and it mainly influences the predictions of the direct diffusivity at low frequencies (i.e.,ω∗≪1).

Keywords: Diffusion waves; Porous media; Volume averaging; Effective diffusivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.12.025

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