VIGNOLES, Gérard; CHARRIER, Pierre; PREUX, Christophe; DUBROCA, Bruno

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VIGNOLES, Gérard
Laboratoire des Composites Thermostructuraux [LCTS]

CHARRIER, Pierre
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux [IMB]

PREUX, Christophe
IFP Energies nouvelles [IFPEN]

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Transport in Porous Media. 2008-04-08, vol. 75, p. 295-317

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Viscous flow, effusion, and thermal transpiration are the main gas transport modalities for a rarefied gas in a macro-porous medium. They have been well quantified only in the case of simple geometries. This paper presents a numerical method based on the homogenization of kinetic equations producing effective transport properties (permeability, Knudsen diffusivity, thermal transpiration ratio) in any porous medium sample, as described by a digitized 3D image. The homogenization procedure -- neglecting the effect of gas density gradients on heat transfer through the solid -- leads to closure problems in R^6 for the obtention of effective properties ; they are then simplified using a Galerkin method based on a 21-element basis set. The kinetic equations are then discretized in R^3 space with a finite-volume scheme. The method is validated against experimental data in the case of a closed test tube. It shows to be coherent with past approaches of thermal transpiration. Then, it is applied to several 3D images of increasing complexity. Another validation is brought by comparison with other distinct numerical approaches for the evaluation of the Darcian permeability tensor and of the Knudsen diffusion tensor. Results show that thermal transpiration has to be described by an effective transport tensor which is distinct from the other tensors.< Réduire

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Knudsen diffusion

Thermal transpiration

Kinetic equation

Homogenization

Numerical methods

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Rarefied Pure Gas Transport in Non-isothermal Porous Media: Validation and Tests of the Model

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