Statistical effective diffusivity estimation in porous media using an integrated on-site imaging workflow for synchrotron users
Statistical effective diffusivity estimation in porous media using an integrated on-site imaging workflow for synchrotron users
Transport in porous media plays an essential role for many physical, engineering, biological and environmental processes. Novel synchrotron imaging techniques and image-based models have enabled more robust quantification of geometric structures that influence transport through the pore space. However, image-based modelling is computationally expensive, and end users often require, while conducting imaging campaign, fast and agile bulk-scale effective parameter estimates that account for the pore-scale details. In this manuscript we enhance a pre-existing image-based model solver known as OpenImpala to estimate bulk-scale effective transport parameters. In particular, the boundary conditions and equations in OpenImpala were modified in order to estimate the effective diffusivity in an imaged system/geometry via a formal multi-scale homogenisation expansion. Estimates of effective pore space diffusivity were generated for a range of elementary volume sizes to estimate when the effective diffusivity values begin to converge to a single value. Results from OpenImpala were validated against a commercial finite element method package COMSOL Multiphysics (abbreviated as COMSOL). Results showed that the effective diffusivity values determined with OpenImpala were similar to those estimated by COMSOL. Tests on larger domains comparing a full image-based model to a homogenised (geometrically uniform) domain that used the effective diffusivity parameters showed differences below 2 % error, thus verifying the accuracy of the effective diffusivity estimates. Finally, we compared OpenImpala’s parallel computing speeds to COMSOL. OpenImpala consistently ran simulations within fractions of minutes, which was two orders of magnitude faster than COMSOL providing identical supercomputing specifications. In conclusion, we demonstrated OpenImpala’s utility as part of an on-site tomography processing pipeline allowing for fast and agile assessment of porous media processes and to guide imaging campaigns while they are happening at synchrotron beamlines.
Homogenisation, Image-based modelling, Numerical methods, Porous media
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Le Houx, James
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Ruiz, Siul Aljadi
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McKay Fletcher, Daniel
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Ahmeds, Sharif
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26 July 2023
Le Houx, James
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Ruiz, Siul Aljadi
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McKay Fletcher, Daniel
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Ahmeds, Sharif
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Roose, Tiina
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Le Houx, James, Ruiz, Siul Aljadi, McKay Fletcher, Daniel, Ahmeds, Sharif and Roose, Tiina
(2023)
Statistical effective diffusivity estimation in porous media using an integrated on-site imaging workflow for synchrotron users.
Transport in Porous Media, 150 (1), .
(doi:10.1007/s11242-023-01993-7).
Abstract
Transport in porous media plays an essential role for many physical, engineering, biological and environmental processes. Novel synchrotron imaging techniques and image-based models have enabled more robust quantification of geometric structures that influence transport through the pore space. However, image-based modelling is computationally expensive, and end users often require, while conducting imaging campaign, fast and agile bulk-scale effective parameter estimates that account for the pore-scale details. In this manuscript we enhance a pre-existing image-based model solver known as OpenImpala to estimate bulk-scale effective transport parameters. In particular, the boundary conditions and equations in OpenImpala were modified in order to estimate the effective diffusivity in an imaged system/geometry via a formal multi-scale homogenisation expansion. Estimates of effective pore space diffusivity were generated for a range of elementary volume sizes to estimate when the effective diffusivity values begin to converge to a single value. Results from OpenImpala were validated against a commercial finite element method package COMSOL Multiphysics (abbreviated as COMSOL). Results showed that the effective diffusivity values determined with OpenImpala were similar to those estimated by COMSOL. Tests on larger domains comparing a full image-based model to a homogenised (geometrically uniform) domain that used the effective diffusivity parameters showed differences below 2 % error, thus verifying the accuracy of the effective diffusivity estimates. Finally, we compared OpenImpala’s parallel computing speeds to COMSOL. OpenImpala consistently ran simulations within fractions of minutes, which was two orders of magnitude faster than COMSOL providing identical supercomputing specifications. In conclusion, we demonstrated OpenImpala’s utility as part of an on-site tomography processing pipeline allowing for fast and agile assessment of porous media processes and to guide imaging campaigns while they are happening at synchrotron beamlines.
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Accepted/In Press date: 3 July 2023
e-pub ahead of print date: 26 July 2023
Published date: 26 July 2023
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This work was carried out with the support of Diamond Light Source, at the Dual Imaging And Diffraction (DIAD) beamline as part of the Ada Lovelace Centre (ALC) STFC project, CANVAS-NXtomo, ContAiNerised Voxel-bAsed Simulation of Neutron and X-ray Tomography data. This work was part funded by the EPSRC prosperity partnership with Imperial College, INFUSE, Interface with the Future - Underpinning Science to Support the Energy transition EP/V038044/1. This work was also part funded by the ERC Consolidator grant 646809 (Data Intensive Modelling of the Rhizosphere Processes), BBSRC SARIC BB/P004180/1, BBSRC SARISA BB/L025620/1 and EPSRC EP/M020355/1.
Funding Information:
This work was carried out with the support of Diamond Light Source, at the Dual Imaging And Diffraction (DIAD) beamline as part of the Ada Lovelace Centre (ALC) STFC project, CANVAS-NXtomo, ContAiNerised Voxel-bAsed Simulation of Neutron and X-ray Tomography data. This work was part funded by the EPSRC prosperity partnership with Imperial College, INFUSE, Interface with the Future - Underpinning Science to Support the Energy transition EP/V038044/1. This work was also part funded by the ERC Consolidator grant 646809 (Data Intensive Modelling of the Rhizosphere Processes), BBSRC SARIC BB/P004180/1, BBSRC SARISA BB/L025620/1 and EPSRC EP/M020355/1.
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JLH was supported by EPSRC grant EP/V038044/1, and the STFC ALC project, CANVAS-NXtomo. SR, DMF and TR are funded by ERC Consolidator grant 646809 (Data Intensive Modelling of the Rhizosphere Processes). TR is also funded by, BBSRC SARIC BB/P004180/1, BBSRC SARISA BB/L025620/1 and EPSRC EP/M020355/1. DMF was also supported by the Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division (SRUC-C5-1). SR was also supported by BBSRC Discovery Fellowship BB/X010147/1 (Quantifying soil biomechanics using X-Ray diffraction-imaging and physical modelling).
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Homogenisation, Image-based modelling, Numerical methods, Porous media
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/481345
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