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A discretized analytical solution for fully coupled non-linear simulation of heat and mass transfer in poroelastic unsaturated media

Arfaei Malekzadeh, F ; Sharif University of Technology | 2009

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1002/nag.788
  3. Publisher: 2009
  4. Abstract:
  5. Mathematical simulation of non-isothermal multiphase flow in deformable unsaturated porous media is a complicated issue because of the need to employ multiple partial differential equations, the need to take into account mass and energy transfer between phases and because of the non-linear nature of the governing partial differential equations. In this paper, an analytical solution for analyzing a fully coupled problem is presented for the one-dimensional case where the coefficients of the system of equations are assumed to be constant for the entire domain. A major issue is the non-linearity of the governing equations, which is not considered in the analytical solution. In order to introduce the non-linearity of the equations, an iterative discretized procedure is used. The domain of the problem is divided into identical time-space elements that cover the time-space domain. A separate system of equations is defined for each element in the local coordinate system, the initial and boundary conditions for each element are obtained from the adjacent elements and the coefficients of the system of equations are considered to be constant in each step. There are seven governing differential equations that should be solved simultaneously: the equilibrium of the solid skeleton, mass conservation of fluids (water, water vapor and gas) and energy conservation of phases (solid, liquid and gas). The water vapor is not in equilibrium with water and different phases do not have the same temperature. The governing equations that have been solved seem to be the most comprehensive in this field. Three examples are presented for analyzing heat and mass transfer in a semi-infinite column of unsaturated soil. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
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  7. Analytical solution ; Mass transfer ; Unsaturated soil ; Analytical solutions ; Coupled analysis ; Entire domain ; Fully-coupled ; Governing differential equations ; Governing equations ; Heat and mass transfer ; Local coordinate system ; Mass conservation ; Mathematical simulations ; Non-linear ; Non-Linearity ; Nonisothermal ; Nonlinear simulations ; Poroelastic ; Semi-infinite ; System of equations ; Time-space ; Unsaturated porous media ; Unsaturated soil ; Boundary conditions ; Computational fluid dynamics ; Energy transfer ; Heat exchangers ; Heat transfer ; Linearization ; Partial differential equations ; Porous materials ; Soils ; Mass transfer ; Analytical method ; Boundary condition ; Computer simulation ; Poroelasticity ; Porous medium ; Soil analysis ; Soil column ; Unsaturated medium ; Water vapor
  8. Source: International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics ; Volume 33, Issue 13 , 2009 , Pages 1589-1611 ; 03639061 (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/nag.788