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We analyse the process of convective mixing in two-dimensional, homogeneous and isotropic porous media with dispersion. We considered a Rayleigh-Taylor instability in which the presence of a solute produces density differences driving the…
The back-reaction of dispersed rigid fibers to turbulence is analyzed by means of a state-of-the-art fully-coupled immersed boundary method. The following universal scenario is identified: turbulence at large scales looses a consistent part…
To describe complex flow systems accurately, it is in many cases important to account for the properties of fluid flows on a microscopic scale. In this work, we focus on the description of liquid-vapor flow with a sharp interface between…
Recent X-ray imaging experiments have revealed that multiphase flow through porous media involves transient fluctuations in local occupancy, even under fixed macroscopic steady-state conditions where capillary forces dominate at the pore…
Many unsteady flows exhibiting complex dynamics are nevertheless characterized by emergent large-scale coherence in space and time. Reduced-order models based on Galerkin projection of the governing equations onto an orthogonal modal basis…
In this work, we analyze the flow filtration process of slightly compressible fluids in porous media containing man made fractures with complex geometries. We model the coupled fracture-porous media system where the linear Darcy flow is…
We study the fluid flow through disordered porous media by numerically solving the complete set of the Navier-Stokes equations in a two dimensional lattice with a spatially random distribution of solid obstacles (plaquettes). We simulate…
We consider the application of multilevel Monte Carlo methods to steady state Darcy flow in a random porous medium, described mathematically by elliptic partial differential equations with random coefficients. The levels in the multilevel…
We consider combustion problems in the presence of complex chemistry and nonlinear diffusion laws leading to fully nonlinear multispecies reaction-diffusion equations. We establish results of existence of solution and maximum principle,…
The work is devoted to the development and computational implementation of the homogenization method for modeling unsteady flows of a viscous incompressible fluid in periodic porous media taking into account memory effects. At the…
A type-I model of non-isothermal multicomponent systems of gases describing mass diffusive and heat conductive phenomena is presented. The derivation of the model and a convergence result among thermomechanical theories in the smooth regime…
A stochastic approach to the filling dynamics of an open topology porous structure permeated with a perfectly wetting fluid is presented. From the discrete structure of the disordered voids network with only nearest neighbors links, we…
The transition from a microscopic model for the movement of many particles to a macroscopic continuum model for a density flow is studied. The microscopic model for the free flow is completely deterministic, described by an interaction…
We consider the Dirichlet problem for a compressible two-fluid model in three dimensions, and obtain the global existence of weak solution with large initial data and independent adiabatic constants \Gamma,\gamma>=9/5. The pressure…
Based on non-equilibrium thermodynamics we derive a set of general equations relating the partial volumetric flow rates to each other and to the total volumetric flow rate in immiscible two-phase flow in porous media. These equations…
In this study we apply the maximum entropy principle to derive the properly scaled velocity distribution function of Boltzmann equations for mixtures, which leads to a non-isothermal Maxwell-Stefan diffusion model. We also analyze the…
We are concerned with a model describing the motion of two compressible, immiscible fluids with density-dependent viscosity in the whole $\mathbb R^3$. The phases of the flow may have different pressure and viscosity laws and are separated…
Direct numerical simulation of Stokes flow through an impermeable, rigid body matrix by finite elements requires meshes fine enough to resolve the pore-size scale and is thus a computationally expensive task. The cost is significantly…
We extend the two-scale expansion approach of periodic homogenization to include time scales and thus can tackle the full instationary Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard model at the pore scale as microscale. Time scale separation allows us to…
In this paper, we present a model based on a local thermodynamic equilibrium, weakly ionized plasma-mixture model used for medical and technical applications in etching processes. We consider a simplified model based on the Maxwell-Stefan…