Friday, March 10, 2017

Inertial Flow in Porous Media


This is an exemplary fluid flow through 64x64 random blocks porous media made in order to reproduce J.S. Andrade results on intertial flows in porous media (PRL, 2009). Unfortunately, after I spend half a year on it (doing in the meanwhile of other projects) I didn't succeed yet to reproduce their results. One possible explanation is that I use the Lattice Boltzmann Method - which is different from the SIMPLE- like algorithm used by Fluent that was used in the original paper.
Anyway, the fight is not finished yet.
Interested? Drop me an email: maciej.matyka@gmail.com


Fig: 64x64 blocks (numerical mesh is way larger)

 



Fig: The plot of Pi number versus Reynolds number in the system like below. Compared to Andrade 1999 (PRL).







Soda Constructor (Revisited)