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Integral Representation of Hydraulic Permeability

Analysis of PDEs 2022-01-17 v4

Abstract

In this paper, we show that the permeability of a porous {material} and that of a bubbly fluid are limiting cases of the complexified version of the two-fluid models posed in {Lipton_Avellaneda_1990}. We assume the viscosity of the inclusion fluid is zμ1z\mu_1 and the viscosity of the hosting fluid is μ1R+\mu_1\in \mathbb{R}^+, zCz\in\mathbb{C}. The proof is carried out by the construction of solutions for large z|z| and small z|z| with an iteration process and the analytic continuation. Moreover, we also show that for a fixed microstructure, the permeabilities of these three cases share the same integral representation formula (IRF) in Equation (99) with different values of contrast parameter s:=1/(z1)s:=1/(z-1), as long as ss is outside the interval [2E221+2E22,11+2E12][-\frac{2E_2^2}{1+2E_2^2},-\frac{1}{1+2E_1^2}], where the positive constants E1E_1 and E2E_2 are the extension constants that depend only on the geometry of the periodic pore space of the material.

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@article{arxiv.2101.11862,
  title  = {Integral Representation of Hydraulic Permeability},
  author = {Chuan Bi and Miao-jung Yvonne Ou and Shangyou Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.11862},
  year   = {2022}
}

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25 pages

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