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COBEM 2019
25th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
Numerical methodology for obtaining permeability for 2D porous medium through finite volume method - a first-step towards more complex permeability functions
Submission Author:
Guilherme Henrique Fiorot , RS
Co-Authors:
Pedro Maztzembacher, Guilherme Henrique Fiorot, Cirilo Seppi Bresolin
Presenter: Pedro Maztzembacher
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2019.COB2019-1741
Abstract
The properties of porous medium are known to be very dependent on geometrical parameters. Many previous works from the literature employed experiments to propose correlations between those geometrical parameters and the permeability of the medium. Nowadays, the use of numerical simulation instead of experiments is a faster and less expensive alternative to obtain porous medium properties. In this work, numerical simulations employing finite volume schemes were performed to solve the flow of a Newtonian fluid through a 2D porous element. Flow properties were obtained and the Darcian flow was verified. A modified correlation for the permeability was found to the bidimensional porous element geometrical properties. The methodology here employed represent the first stage of a research that will aim for obtaining values of permeability for non-Newtonian fluids.
Keywords
finite volumes method, Non-Newtonian fluid, porous medium
