Methane Diffusion in a Porous Environment

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The paper deals with modeling and simulation of methane flow through the porous environment using the CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) software Fluent. We compare three situations, which can occur in areas, where mining activities were closed few years ago, in this article. First case is modeling of methane flow through the rocks. Second event is situation where the thin water layer is situated at the surface. The last one is occurrence of groundwater. The article responds to the need for knowledge of natural processes in the given area and it follows our previous papers [1], [2]. Software Gambit was used for creating a geometric model of the working area, for modeling the flow of gas it was used CFD software, Fluent from ANSYS, Inc..

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