2021/12/24 by Tufan Ghosh, Ghosh, Tufan, Carina Bringedal +3 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Engineering · Materials Science · #35C20 #35Q35 #35R35 #76N99 #76R50 #76S05 #76T10 #Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics and Thin Films #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #Solidification and crystal growth phenomena
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2112.13104
openalex publication_date 2021/12/24 · openalex created_date 2022/05/05 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We develop a phase-field model for evaporation from a porous medium by explicitly considering a vapor component together with the liquid and gas phases in the system. The phase-field model consists of the conservation of mass (for phases and vapor component), momentum, and energy. In addition, the evolution of the phase field is described by the Allen-Cahn equation. In the limit of vanishing interface width, matched asymptotic expansions reveal that the phase-field model reduces to the sharp-interface model with all the relevant transmission conditions on the moving interface. An energy estimate is derived, which suggests that for the diffusion-dominated regime, energy always decreases with time. However, this is not trivial in the case of other regimes. Through numerical examples, we analyze the efficiency of the developed phase-field formulation in modeling the evaporation process. We observe that our formulation is able to capture shrinking liquid droplet, in other words evaporation. Further, the phase-field model is upscaled to the Darcy scale using periodic homogenization for the diffusion-dominated regime. The effective parameters at the Darcy scale are connected to the pore scale through corresponding cell problems.