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Flow through geometrically irregular media with lattice gas automata

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La determinazione del coefficiente di permeabilità rappresenta un interessante problema comune a molte discipline. Tale determinazione viene affrontata dai diversi autori o tramite la conoscenza di grandezze macroscopiche — come la resistività o la porositá — ovvero partendo dalla conoscenza della microstruttura del mezzo poroso e cercando di simulare il processo di moto fluido che si svolge lungo i canalicoli del mezzo stesso. Seguendo quest'ultimo punto di vista, viene qui di seguito presentata una tecnica alternativa per la verifica della legge di Darcy e, quindi, per una prima valutazione del coefficiente di permeabilità per un mezzo tridimensionale complesso. La simulazione dei moti fluidi viene effettuata tramite una particolare classe di gas reticolari che evolvono secondo le regole degli automi cellulari.

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The determination of the permeability is an interesting problem of fluid dynamics of wide interdisciplinary concern. Many authors approached this subject by developing numerical models of flows through porous media at either macro-scale and micro-scale. According to the latter point of view, we present in this paper a verification of Darcy's law and a first determination of the permeability starting by the knowledge of the microstructure of a three-dimensional random medium. The flow is here reproduced by using a particular class of cellular automata with the Boltzmann approximation.

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Succi, S., Foti, E. & Gramignani, M. Flow through geometrically irregular media with lattice gas automata. Meccanica 25, 253–257 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01559689

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