title: Pore-scale Direct Numerical Simulation of Flow and Transport in Porous Media
creator: Pulloor Kuttanikkad, Sreejith
subject: 004
subject: 004 Data processing Computer science
description: This dissertation presents research on the pore-scale simulation of flow and transport in porous media and describes the application of a new numerical approach based on the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite elements to pore-scale modelling. In this approach, the partial differential equations governing the flow at the pore-scale are solved directly where the main advantage is that it does not require a body fitted grid and works on a structured partition of the domain. Furthermore this approach is locally mass conservative, a desirable property for transport simulation. This allows the investigation of pore-scale processes and their effect on macroscopic behaviour more efficiently. The Stokes flow in two and three dimensional disordered packing was solved and the flow field was used in a random-walk particle tracking model to simulate the transport through the packing. The permeabilities were computed and asymptotic behaviour of solute dispersion for a wide range of Péclet numbers was studied. The simulated results agree well with the data reported in the literature, which indicates that the approach chosen here is well suited for pore-scale simulation.
date: 2009
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/9953/1/thesis_Sreejith.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00009953
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-99535
identifier:   Pulloor Kuttanikkad, Sreejith  (2009) Pore-scale Direct Numerical Simulation of Flow and Transport in Porous Media.  [Dissertation]     
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language: eng