A Capillary Bundle Model Based on Aperture’s Exponential Distribution and its Application in Porous Media’s Mono Direct Percolation

Abstract:

The permeability and changing characters following variation of physicochemical environment outside of porous media like rock and soil are very important for all kind of civil engineering. But until to now, most theories of them are based on phenomenological method, and they cannot interpret the seepage traits and the variation properties induced by environment changing essentially. The author based on the predecessor’s work which consider that pore number obey exponential and built a capillary bundle model to depict the microscopic peculiarity of porous media seepage. The effect of water temperature, the upper limit of Darcy Law, flow rate beyond Darcy Law’s upper limit, and the infection of porosity on permeability etc issues were discussed theoretically with this model. At last, an instance was calculated with this model for its permeability coefficient and critical hydraulic gradient, and at the end the calculation results were discussed.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 594-597)
• Pages: 2481-2485
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.594-597.2481
• Online since: November 2012
• Authors: Xiao Dong Ju, Wen Juan Feng, Yu Jun Zhang, Zheng Sheng Zou
• Keywords: Capillary Bundle Model, Critical Hydraulic Gradient, Porous Medium, Seepage, Upper Limit of Darcy Law

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