期刊
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH
卷 123, 期 12, 页码 10563-10582出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2018JB016031
关键词
regular-shaped particles; irregularly shaped convex particles; porosity; absolute permeability; elastic moduli; computational rock physics
资金
- Stanford Rock Physics and Borehole Geophysics research group
The shapes of particles play a crucial role in the transport and mechanical behavior of granular media. How densely particles of a specific shape can be arranged in a given volume has an enormous practical significance for many scientific and industrial fields. We developed a numerical workflow to investigate the effects of irregularly shaped frictionless, convex particles combined with the polydispersity of particle sizes on the porosity, permeability, and elastic bulk modulus of granular porous media. The workflow is based on the computationally generated three-dimensional granular assemblies of both regular and irregularly shaped particles and pore-scale simulation of physics to estimate the absolute permeability and elastic bulk modulus of the generated digital granular porous media. Our numerical results show that the porosity decreases by 14-25%, absolute permeability decreases by 45-76%, and elastic bulk modulus increases by 20-66% as we deviate from the regular-shaped particle with the specified particle size distribution. How rapidly and to what degree these properties of granular assemblies of irregularly shaped particles change depends on particle size distribution. However, once the maximal densest packings of irregularly shaped particles with the prescribed aspect ratio are generated, any further change in the shape of particles has either a minimal impact or an opposite effects are observed. Overall, our numerical observations suggest that the irregular shape of particles has the greatest effect on permeability and the least effect on porosity in both monodisperse and polydisperse granular media.
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