Permeability of cracked porous solids through percolation approach

Author:

Li Le ,Li Ke-Fei ,

Abstract

This paper investigates the permeability of microcracked porous solids incorporating random crack networks in terms of continuum percolation theory. Main factors of permeability include the geometry of crack networks, permeability of porous matrix, and crack opening. For the two-dimensional random crack networks, a new connectivity factor is defined to take into consideration the spanning cluster of cracks, fractal dimension of networks, and the size of a finite domain. For an infinite domain, the connectivity factor around a percolation threshold observes the scaling law, so this definition of connectivity is proved to be consistent with the percolation concepts. Geometric analysis reveals that the local clustering will not necessarily contribute to the global connectivity of networks. It is also found that too strong a local clustering of cracks will decrease the probability of the global percolation, and this adverse aspect of the local clustering effect has never been reported in the literature. The percolation threshold changes with the crack pattern of networks and the scaling exponents of percolation are not constant but depend on the fractal dimension of the crack networks. On the basis of connectivity and tortuosity of crack networks, the scaling law for permeability is established, K=K0(Km,b)(-c), taking into consideration the geometris characteristics through (-c), the permeability of porous matrix Km, and the crack opening aperture b. Then the permeability of a solid incorporating random crack networks is solved by finite element methods: all the cracks are idealized as 2-node elements and the matrix is divided into 6-node triangle elements. The fluid is assumed to be incompressible and Newtonian. With these assumptions the effective permeability of numerical samples is evaluated through Darcy's law. The scaling exponents of the permeability obtained numerically are very near to the theoretical values, and the impact of crack opening is less important as the crack density is far below the percolation threshold and the effect of crack opening becomes significant only as the crack density approaches the percolation threshold. Influence of crack opening on the permeability is strongly dependent on the opening aperture of the cracks. Finite element simulation results show that K0 depends on b through a power law near the percolation threshold and this dependence disappears as the ratio between the local permeability of crack and the matrix permeability exceeds 106.

Publisher

Acta Physica Sinica, Chinese Physical Society and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Subject

General Physics and Astronomy

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