Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Scaling effect of breakthrough character in porous media

  • Notes
  • Published:
Chinese Science Bulletin

Abstract

Breakthrough phenomenon during fluids percolating through wet saturated porous layer is widely met in the study of heat and mass transfer in porous media. Breakthrough pressure (BP) is a characteristic pressure that indicates the intrinsic properties of seepage within porous media. Measuring results of BP for saturated narrow-sieved sand are reported here. The curve of BP varying with the height of porous layer was obtained. Experiment and analysis indicate that BP is independent of the height of particle packed layer if thick enough; however, when the height is less than a certain critical value, BP diminishes with the decrease of the height according to a universal scaling law.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Dullien, F. A. L., Porous Media: Fluid Transport and Pore Structure, 2nd edition, London: Academic Press, 1992.

    Google Scholar 

  2. Leverett, M. C., Capillary behavior in porous solids, Trans. Am. Inst. Min. Metall. Pet. Eng., 1941, 142: 152.

    Google Scholar 

  3. Katz, A. J., Thompson, A. H., Quantitative prediction of permeability in porous rock, Phys. Rev. B, 1986, 34: 8179.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. Lei, S. Y., Jia, L. Q., Zheng, G. Y. et al., Experiments of pressure threshold and permeability of sand, Chinese J. Engineering Thermophys (in Chinese), 1998, 19: 80.

    Google Scholar 

  5. Boukadi, F., Bemani, A., Rumhy, M. et al., Threshold pressure as a measure of degree of rock wettability and diagenesis in consolidated Omani limestone cores, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 1998, 15: 33.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Sahimi, M., Flow and Transport in Porous Media and Fractured Rock: From Classical Methods to Mordern Approaches, New York: VCH, 1995.

    Google Scholar 

  7. Selyakov, V. I., Kadet, V. V., Percolation Models for Transport in Porous Media With Applications to Reservoir Engineering, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.

    Google Scholar 

  8. Adler, P. M., Thovert, J.-F., Fractures and Fracture Networks, London: Kluwer Academic, 1999.

    Google Scholar 

  9. Klemm, A., Muller, H.-P., Kimmich, R., Evaluation of fractal parameters of percolation model objects and natural porous media by means of NMR microscopy, Physica A, 1999, 266: 242.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China

    Xuejiao Hu, Jianhua Du, Xiang Liu & Buxuan Wang

Authors
  1. Xuejiao Hu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Jianhua Du
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Xiang Liu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Buxuan Wang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Xuejiao Hu.

About this article

Cite this article

Hu, X., Du, J., Liu, X. et al. Scaling effect of breakthrough character in porous media. Chin.Sci.Bull. 46, 878–880 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02900443

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02900443

Keywords

Search

Navigation