Permeability of structured porous media:numerical simulations and microfluidic models  

作　　者：Shaokai NIE Pengfei LIU Kexin CHEN Wenyuan WANG Yunmin CHEN Bate BATE 

机构地区：[1]Institute of Geotechnical Engineering,College of Civil Engineering and Architecture,Zhejiang University,Hangzhou 310058,China [2]Hypergravity Research Center,College of Civil Engineering and Architecture,Zhejiang University,Hangzhou 310058,China [3]MOE Key Laboratory of Soft Soils and Geoenvironmental Engineering,Zhejiang University,Hangzhou 310058,China

出　　处：《Journal of Zhejiang University-Science A(Applied Physics & Engineering)》2024年第12期1018-1036,共19页浙江大学学报(英文版)A辑(应用物理与工程)

基　　金：supported by the Basic Science Center Program for Multiphase Evolution in Hypergravity of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51988101);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.42177118);the Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities(111 Project)of China(No.B18047).

摘　　要：In this study,the permeability of structured porous media with the microfluidic model is experimentally and numerically determined,and compared with the classic Kozeny-Carman(KC)equation.The Reynolds number(Re)varies from 0.83 to 142.98.It is observed that the threshold of the Reynolds number is 1.When Re is below the threshold,the permeability is independent of the Reynolds number.When Re is over this threshold,the viscous force plays a dominant role and the permeability decreases with the Reynolds number increment.The permeability also rises with the diameter increment.With the same micropillar diameter,the microfluidic model with a triangular pillar arrangement yields 4.5%–7.4%lower permeability than that with a square pillar arrangement.The tortuosity obtained by numerical simulation in the triangular-arrangement model is 5.1%–7.9%higher than that in the square-arrangement model.Based on the arrangement of micropillars,a tortuosity model is proposed for quasi-two-dimensional microfluidic models.There is an inverse relationship between permeability and tortuosity.In addition,the permeability generated by numerical simulation is consistent with that obtained experimentally.However,the permeability estimated by the classic KC equation roughly agrees with experimental results when the porosity is between 0.50 and 0.60.A model proposed in this study is suitable for predicting the permeability of microfluidic models.Furthermore,anisotropy induced by the tilt angle(0°–90°)of a model rectangular micropillar arrangement causes preferential flow and decreases the effective porosity.When the tilt angle increases from 0°to 90°,the tortuosity declines from 2.04 to 1.03,causing the permeability to rise from 1.0×10^(-11) to 4.3×10^(-11) m^(2).

关 键 词：PERMEABILITY Microfluidic model POROSITY TORTUOSITY ANISOTROPY 

分 类 号：O35[理学—流体力学]