Statistics of highly heterogeneous flow fields confined to three-dimensional random porous media

We present a strong relationship between the microstructural characteristics of, and the fluid velocity fields confined to, three-dimensional random porous materials. The relationship is revealed through simultaneously extracting correlation functions R-uu (r) of the spatial (Eulerian) velocity fiel...

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Main Authors: Jin, Chunyu, Langston, Paul A., Pavlovskaya, Galina E., Hall, Mattew R., Rigby, Sean P.
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Published: American Physical Society 2016
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32609/
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author Jin, Chunyu
Langston, Paul A.
Pavlovskaya, Galina E.
Hall, Mattew R.
Rigby, Sean P.
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Pavlovskaya, Galina E.
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description We present a strong relationship between the microstructural characteristics of, and the fluid velocity fields confined to, three-dimensional random porous materials. The relationship is revealed through simultaneously extracting correlation functions R-uu (r) of the spatial (Eulerian) velocity fields and microstructural two-point correlation functions S-2(r) of the random porous heterogeneous materials. This demonstrates that the effective physical transport properties depend on the characteristics of complex pore structure owing to the relationship between R-uu (r) and S-2(r) revealed in this study. Further, the mean excess plot was used to investigate the right tail of the streamwise velocity component that was found to obey light-tail distributions. Based on the mean excess plot, a generalized Pareto distribution can be used to approximate the positive streamwise velocity distribution.
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spelling nottingham-326092020-05-04T17:31:01Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32609/ Statistics of highly heterogeneous flow fields confined to three-dimensional random porous media Jin, Chunyu Langston, Paul A. Pavlovskaya, Galina E. Hall, Mattew R. Rigby, Sean P. We present a strong relationship between the microstructural characteristics of, and the fluid velocity fields confined to, three-dimensional random porous materials. The relationship is revealed through simultaneously extracting correlation functions R-uu (r) of the spatial (Eulerian) velocity fields and microstructural two-point correlation functions S-2(r) of the random porous heterogeneous materials. This demonstrates that the effective physical transport properties depend on the characteristics of complex pore structure owing to the relationship between R-uu (r) and S-2(r) revealed in this study. Further, the mean excess plot was used to investigate the right tail of the streamwise velocity component that was found to obey light-tail distributions. Based on the mean excess plot, a generalized Pareto distribution can be used to approximate the positive streamwise velocity distribution. American Physical Society 2016-01-19 Article PeerReviewed Jin, Chunyu, Langston, Paul A., Pavlovskaya, Galina E., Hall, Mattew R. and Rigby, Sean P. (2016) Statistics of highly heterogeneous flow fields confined to three-dimensional random porous media. Physical Review E, 93 . 013122/1-013122/10. ISSN 1550-2376 http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.93.013122 doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.93.013122 doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.93.013122
spellingShingle Jin, Chunyu
Langston, Paul A.
Pavlovskaya, Galina E.
Hall, Mattew R.
Rigby, Sean P.
Statistics of highly heterogeneous flow fields confined to three-dimensional random porous media
title Statistics of highly heterogeneous flow fields confined to three-dimensional random porous media
title_full Statistics of highly heterogeneous flow fields confined to three-dimensional random porous media
title_fullStr Statistics of highly heterogeneous flow fields confined to three-dimensional random porous media
title_full_unstemmed Statistics of highly heterogeneous flow fields confined to three-dimensional random porous media
title_short Statistics of highly heterogeneous flow fields confined to three-dimensional random porous media
title_sort statistics of highly heterogeneous flow fields confined to three-dimensional random porous media
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