The effect of order on dispersion in porous media
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 200, 173-188
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112089000613
Abstract
The effect of spatial periodicity in grain structure on the average transport properties resulting from flow through porous media are derived from the basic conservation equations. At high Péclet number, the mechanical dispersion that is induced by the stochastic fluid velocity field in disordered media and is independent of the molecular diffusivity is absent in periodic media where the velocity field is deterministic. Instead, the fluid motion enhances diffusion by an amount proportional to U2l2/D when the bulk flow is in certain directions (of which there are an infinite number), and to D otherwise. The non-mechanical dispersion mechanisms associated with the zero velocity of the fixed grains is qualitatively similar in ordered and disordered media.Keywords
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