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An efficient numerical model for liquid water uptake in porous material and its parameter estimation

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science 2020-02-20 v1 Analysis of PDEs Numerical Analysis Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

The goal of this study is to propose an efficient numerical model for the predictions of capillary adsorption phenomena in a porous material. The Scharfetter-Gummel numerical scheme is proposed to solve an advection-diffusion equation with gravity flux. Its advantages such as accuracy, relaxed stability condition, and reduced computational cost are discussed along with the study of linear and nonlinear cases. The reliability of the numerical model is evaluated by comparing the numerical predictions with experimental observations of liquid uptake in bricks. A parameter estimation problem is solved to adjust the uncertain coefficients of moisture diffusivity and hydraulic conductivity.

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@article{arxiv.1903.00106,
  title  = {An efficient numerical model for liquid water uptake in porous material and its parameter estimation},
  author = {Ainagul Jumabekova and Julien Berger and Denys Dutykh and Hervé Le Meur and Aurélie Foucquier and Mickaël Pailha and Christophe Ménézo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.00106},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

41 pages, 19 figures, 3 tables, 35 references. Other author's papers can be downloaded at http://www.denys-dutykh.com/

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