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1Key Laboratory of Surficial Geochemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
Abstract:
The lattice-Boltzmann method is convenient for simulating flow fields in porous media. However, due to its lattice characteristics, the velocity near a solid surface is not accurate, which results in significant errors when simulating colloid transport in porous media. Based on the general properties of a flow field close to a solid surface, we propose an alternative velocity interpolation method in which the velocity at a solid surface is strictly zero. Numerical simulation results show that the proposed method can give more accurate results than the usual bilinear interpolation. In addition, we use this method to simulate the contact efficiency of colloids in porous media and obtain a new power-law form of the contact efficiency.
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