Publisher： Emerald Group Publishing Ltd
E-ISSN： 1758-6585|25|8|1957-1977
ISSN： 0961-5539
Source： International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol.25, Iss.8, 2015-11, pp. : 1957-1977
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Abstract
<title content-type="abstract-heading">Purpose</title>– Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is employed to explore friction factor of single-phase fluid flow through porous media and the effects of local porous structure including geometry of grains in porous media and specific surface of porous media on two-phase flow dynamic behavior, phase distribution and relative permeability. The paper aims to discuss this issue.<title content-type="abstract-heading">Design/methodology/approach</title>– The 3D single-phase LBM model and the 2D multi-component multi-phase Shan-Chen LBM model (S-C model) are developed for fluid flow through porous media. For the solid site, the bounce back scheme is used with non-slip boundary condition.<title content-type="abstract-heading">Findings</title>– The predicted friction factor for single-phase fluid flow agrees well with experimental data and the well-known correlation. Compared with porous media with square grains, the two-phase fluids in porous media with circle grains are more connected and continuous, and consequently the relative permeability is higher. As for the factor of specific porous media surface, the relative permeability of wetting fluids varies a little in two systems with different specific surface areas. In addition, the relative permeability of non-wetting fluid decreases with the increasing of specific surface of porous media due to the large flow resistance.<title content-type="abstract-heading">Originality/value</title>– Fluid-fluid interaction and fluid-solid interaction in the SC LBM model are presented, and schemes to obtain immiscible two-phase flow and different contact angles are discussed. Two-off mechanisms acting on the wetting fluids is proposed to illustrate the relative permeability of wetting fluids varies a little in two systems with different specific surface.
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