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ArticleTransport in porous media2023

Statistical Effective Diffusivity Estimation in Porous Media Using an Integrated On-site Imaging Workflow for Synchrotron Users.

James Le Houx, Siul Ruiz, Daniel McKay Fletcher, Sharif Ahmed, Tiina Roose

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James Le Houx *Department, Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Fermi Ave, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1576-0673
Siul Ruiz *Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, University Road, Southampton, Hampshire SO17 1BJ UK.
Daniel McKay Fletcher *Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, University Road, Southampton, Hampshire SO17 1BJ UK.
Sharif AhmedDepartment, Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Fermi Ave, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE UK.
Tiina RooseFaculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, University Road, Southampton, Hampshire SO17 1BJ UK.

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Abstract

Transport in porous media plays an essential role for many physical, engineering, biological and environmental processes. Novel synchrotron imaging techniques and image-based models have enabled more robust quantification of geometric structures that influence transport through the pore space. However, image-based modelling is computationally expensive, and end users often require, while conducting imaging campaign, fast and agile bulk-scale effective parameter estimates that account for the pore-scale details. In this manuscript we enhance a pre-existing image-based model solver known as OpenImpala to estimate bulk-scale effective transport parameters. In particular, the boundary conditions and equations in OpenImpala were modified in order to estimate the effective diffusivity in an imaged system/geometry via a formal multi-scale homogenisation expansion. Estimates of effective pore space diffusivity were generated for a range of elementary volume sizes to estimate when the effective diffusivity values begin to converge to a single value. Results from OpenImpala were validated against a commercial finite element method package COMSOL Multiphysics (abbreviated as COMSOL). Results showed that the effective diffusivity values determined with OpenImpala were similar to those estimated by COMSOL. Tests on larger domains comparing a full image-based model to a homogenised (geometrically uniform) domain that used the effective diffusivity parameters showed differences below 2 % error, thus verifying the accuracy of the effective diffusivity estimates. Finally, we compared OpenImpala's parallel computing speeds to COMSOL. OpenImpala consistently ran simulations within fractions of minutes, which was two orders of magnitude faster than COMSOL providing identical supercomputing specifications. In conclusion, we demonstrated OpenImpala's utility as part of an on-site tomography processing pipeline allowing for fast and agile assessment of porous media processes and to guide imaging campaigns while they are happening at synchrotron beamlines. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11242-023-01993-7.

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HomogenisationImage-based modellingNumerical methodsPorous media

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PMID37663951
PMCPMC10468943

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