Direct Quantification of Dynamic Effects in Capillary Pressure for Drainage–Wetting Cycles

Vadose Zone Journal - Tập 9 Số 2 - Trang 424-437 - 2010
Toshihiro Sakaki1, D. M. O’Carroll2, Tissa H. Illangasekare1
1Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes (CESEP), Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
2Dep. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

Tóm tắt

The constitutive relationship between capillary pressure (Pc) and wetting fluid saturation (Sw), or retention curve, is needed to model multiphase flow in porous media. This relationship is usually measured under static conditions; however, transient flow is governed by a dynamic relationship between the Pc and Sw Differences in Pc measured under static and dynamic conditions are due to dynamic effects typically defined as a product of a dynamic coefficient (τ) and the rate of change in Sw To date, relatively few experimental studies have been conducted to directly quantify the magnitude of this effect. In this study, the magnitude of τ was quantified by measuring both static and dynamic retention curves in repeated drainage and wetting experiments using a field sand. The 95% confidence intervals for the static retention curves showed that the dynamic retention curves were statistically different. The measured τ for primary drainage generally increased with decreasing Sw The measured τ values were also compared with those estimated using a different approach based on redistribution time. The measured and estimated τ were in close agreement when the redistribution times were 146 s for the wetting cycle and 509 s for primary and main drainage cycles. The shape of the τ–Sw relationship was largely controlled by the slope of the static retention curve. Numerical modeling demonstrated that a log‐linear model relating τ and Sw yielded the best match to experimental outflow results.

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Vadose Zone Journal

Tập 9 Số 2

424-437

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