A phase-field approach to model evaporation from porous media: Modeling and upscaling

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Autori principali: Ghosh, Tufan, Bringedal, Carina, Rohde, Christian, Helmig, Rainer
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author Ghosh, Tufan
Bringedal, Carina
Rohde, Christian
Helmig, Rainer
author_facet Ghosh, Tufan
Bringedal, Carina
Rohde, Christian
Helmig, Rainer
contents We develop a phase-field model for evaporation from a porous medium by explicitly considering a vapor component together with the liquid and gas phases in the system. The phase-field model consists of the conservation of mass (for phases and vapor component), momentum, and energy. In addition, the evolution of the phase field is described by the Allen-Cahn equation. In the limit of vanishing interface width, matched asymptotic expansions reveal that the phase-field model reduces to the sharp-interface model with all the relevant transmission conditions on the moving interface. An energy estimate is derived, which suggests that for the diffusion-dominated regime, energy always decreases with time. However, this is not trivial in the case of other regimes. Through numerical examples, we analyze the efficiency of the developed phase-field formulation in modeling the evaporation process. We observe that our formulation is able to capture shrinking liquid droplet, in other words evaporation. Further, the phase-field model is upscaled to the Darcy scale using periodic homogenization for the diffusion-dominated regime. The effective parameters at the Darcy scale are connected to the pore scale through corresponding cell problems.
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spellingShingle A phase-field approach to model evaporation from porous media: Modeling and upscaling
Ghosh, Tufan
Bringedal, Carina
Rohde, Christian
Helmig, Rainer
Analysis of PDEs
Mathematical Physics
35C20, 35Q35, 35R35, 76N99, 76R50, 76S05, 76T10
We develop a phase-field model for evaporation from a porous medium by explicitly considering a vapor component together with the liquid and gas phases in the system. The phase-field model consists of the conservation of mass (for phases and vapor component), momentum, and energy. In addition, the evolution of the phase field is described by the Allen-Cahn equation. In the limit of vanishing interface width, matched asymptotic expansions reveal that the phase-field model reduces to the sharp-interface model with all the relevant transmission conditions on the moving interface. An energy estimate is derived, which suggests that for the diffusion-dominated regime, energy always decreases with time. However, this is not trivial in the case of other regimes. Through numerical examples, we analyze the efficiency of the developed phase-field formulation in modeling the evaporation process. We observe that our formulation is able to capture shrinking liquid droplet, in other words evaporation. Further, the phase-field model is upscaled to the Darcy scale using periodic homogenization for the diffusion-dominated regime. The effective parameters at the Darcy scale are connected to the pore scale through corresponding cell problems.
title A phase-field approach to model evaporation from porous media: Modeling and upscaling
topic Analysis of PDEs
Mathematical Physics
35C20, 35Q35, 35R35, 76N99, 76R50, 76S05, 76T10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.13104