Abstract
The flow past an impermeable sphere embedded in a fluid-saturated porous medium was investigated numerically. The flow is considered viscous, laminar, axisymmetric, steady and incompressible. The generalized model for fluid flow through an isotropic, rigid and homogeneous porous medium was used. The stream function–vorticity equations were solved numerically in spherical coordinates system by a defect correction multigrid method. The computations were focused on the influence of the Darcy number (Da) and Forchheimer constant on the flow field for two boundary conditions on the surface of the sphere: slip and no-slip. The conditions when the macroscopic inertial terms of the generalized model can be neglected are presented. For high-porosity porous media, the macroscopic inertial terms of the generalized model can be neglected if Da \(Re< 1\) (Re is the sphere Reynolds number).
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Abbreviations
- \(a\) :
-
Radius of the sphere
- \(C_{D}\) :
-
Total drag coefficient
- \(C_{D,F}\) :
-
Friction drag coefficient
- \(C_{D,P}\) :
-
Pressure drag coefficient
- \(C_{F}\) :
-
Forchheimer constant
- \(d\) :
-
Diameter of the sphere, \(d = 2a\)
- Da :
-
Darcy number, \(K / d^{2}\)
- \(K\) :
-
Permeability of the porous medium
- \(p\) :
-
Dimensionless local average pressure
- \(r\) :
-
Dimensionless radial coordinate, \(r^{*} / a\), in spherical coordinate system
- \(r^{*}\) :
-
Radial coordinate in spherical coordinate system
- Re :
-
Reynolds number based on the diameter of the sphere, \(Re = U_{0}d\rho / \mu \)
- \(U_{0}\) :
-
Darcy free-stream velocity
- \(V_{R}\) :
-
Darcy dimensionless radial velocity component
- \(V_{\theta }\) :
-
Darcy dimensionless tangential velocity component
- \(x\) :
-
Transformed dimensionless radial coordinate
- \(\beta \) :
-
Dimensionless slip coefficient
- \(\varepsilon \) :
-
Porosity of the porous medium
- \(\mu \) :
-
Dynamic viscosity of the fluid
- \(\theta \) :
-
Polar angle in spherical coordinate system
- \(\rho \) :
-
Density of the fluid
- \(\psi \) :
-
Dimensionless stream function
- \(\zeta \) :
-
Dimensionless vorticity
- \(s\) :
-
Refers to the surface of the sphere
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Juncu, G. A Numerical Study of the Flow Past an Impermeable Sphere Embedded in a Porous Medium. Transp Porous Med 108, 555–579 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-015-0488-7
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