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Influencing factors on fines deposition in porous media by CFD–DEM simulation

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Evolution from fines migration to deposition and clogging is critical for many geotechnical and environmental engineering practices. In this study, the coupling of computational fluid dynamic and discrete element method was adopted to tackle fines migration. The surface energy density term \(\upgamma\) was used to represent the combination of Coulomb forces and van der Waals interactions. A particle-scale mechanical analysis method was adopted to identify three criteria of particle deposition conditions. (1) The drag force on the fines should be less than the electrical forces between particles, (2) the drag force and electrical force torques should be on the same order of magnitude, and (3) the contact angle between particles should be greater than 5.5°. The deposition efficiency increases from 8.5 to 37.8% as surface density energy increases from 0.001 to 0.01 J/m2 at a Reynolds number of 10. As the electrical force is more than 10 times the drag force, clogging occurred. Due to the inertial and Dean forces and the filtration effect of micropillars, a band of lacking particles appears in the symmetrical center of the pore throat.

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This research was supported by the Basic Science Center Program for Multiphase Evolution in Hypergravity of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Award No.: 51988101), the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Award No.: 2019YFC1805002, 2018YFC1802300), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Award No.: 42177118, 51779219). Financial support from the Overseas Expertise Introduction Center for Discipline Innovation (B18047) is also acknowledged. The authors would also like to acknowledge the Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experimental Center (CHIEF).

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Liu, P., Sun, M., Chen, Z. et al. Influencing factors on fines deposition in porous media by CFD–DEM simulation. Acta Geotech. 18, 4539–4563 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-023-01870-z

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