Experimental and numerical cross-validation of flow in real porous media. Part 1: Experimental framework

Fabrice Guerton (1) , Laurène Hume (2) , Philippe Poncet (2) , Peter Moonen (3, 1)

1 DMEX - Développement de méthodologies expérimentales
2 LMAP - Laboratoire de Mathématiques et de leurs Applications [Pau]
3 LFCR - Laboratoire des Fluides Complexes et leurs Réservoirs

The main objective of this contribution is the cross-validation of a novel approach to fluid flow simulation inside porous media. The originality of the model stands both in the use of rather raw 3D volumes from X-ray tomography and the model's computational efficiency on standard calculation means. The performance of the model is assessed in different geometries and configurations, based on reference data obtained via a dedicated experimental setup.

Mots clés: experimental design; test cell design; reference data; synthetic porous media

Domaines: Science des matériaux [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]; Mécanique des fluides [physics.class-ph]; Mécanique des matériaux [physics.class-ph]; Génie mécanique [physics.class-ph]; Mécanique des matériaux [physics.class-ph]; Géophysique [physics.geo-ph]

Fabrice Guerton, Laurène Hume, Philippe Poncet, Peter Moonen. Experimental and numerical cross-validation of flow in real porous media. Part 1: Experimental framework. 3rd International Conference on Tomography of Materials and Structures (ICTMS 2017), Jun 2017, Lund, Sweden. ⟨hal-01815893⟩