کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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157264 | 456967 | 2010 | 11 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |

A deterministic pore-scale model is used to predict the diffusivity ratio of unconsolidated porous media in which the diffusion process can be regarded as isotropic. The pore-scale model is based on a rectangular representative unit cell concept. A porosity-based weighted average of the two-dimensional and three-dimensional pore-scale models is proposed as a convenient model to predict the effective diffusion coefficient of isotropic systems. The diffusivity ratio of two-dimensionally staggered and non-staggered arrays of anisotropic solid rectangles is computed numerically and an existing weighted average model is applied to verify the numerical data. A particular case of a staggered array of solid squares, for which this weighted average model is no longer adequate, is outlined and the weighted average pore-scale model is proposed instead to predict the diffusivity ratio. The newly proposed pore-scale model and the present numerical results compare favourably with numerical data, experimental data and other predictive measures reported in the literature.
Journal: Chemical Engineering Science - Volume 65, Issue 8, 15 April 2010, Pages 2541–2551