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    1) The document discusses geothermal convection in porous media and outlines the governing equations. It defines key terms like seepage velocity, porosity, and mixture diffusivity. 2) The governing equations are given as: mass conservation (Darcy's law), momentum conservation, energy equation for the fluid-solid mixture, and the equation of state for the fluid density. 3) These equations account for fluid flow and heat transfer in porous media, assuming equal temperatures in the fluid and solid phases, and can model problems like geothermal energy extraction and thermal stresses around nuclear waste storage.

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    Notes on
    1.63 Advanced Environmental Fluid Mechanics
    Instructor: C. C. Mei, 2002
    [email protected], 1 617 253 2994

    November 6, 2002

    6.4 Geothermal convection in porous media


    Motivations: Geothermal Energy, Pipe line in permafrost, thermal stress around buried
    nuclear waste.
    S. Chandrasekhar: Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stabililty, Oxford, 1961.
    D. A. Nield and A. Bejan, Convection in porous media , Springer-Verlag, 1992.
    Let us begin with the effective equations over macroscales.
    Recall the definitions of seepage velocity,
    1 ZZZ
    u= q dV (6.4.1)
    Ω Ωf

    and of porosity:
    Ωf
    n= (6.4.2)
    Ω
    Mass conservation for an incompressible fluid:

    ∇·u=0 (6.4.3)

    Momentum conservation (Darcy ’s law)


    µ
    0 = −∇p − u + ρf g (6.4.4)
    k
    Inview of the small size of the solid grains heat diffuses by conduction almost instantly in
    time scales of geothermal interest. We therefore assume the temperature in both phases to
    be equal,
    Ts = Tf = T (6.4.5)
    The energy conservation law in each phase is :
    Solid
    ∂T
    (1 − n)(ρC)s = (1 − n)Ks ∇2 T (6.4.6)
    ∂t
    fluid:
    ∂T
    n(ρC)f + (ρC)f u · ∇T = nKf ∇2 T (6.4.7)
    ∂t
    2

    Adding the two we get the energy equation for the mixture
    ∂T
    (ρC)m + (ρC)f u · ∇T = Km ∇2 T (6.4.8)
    ∂t
    where
    (ρC)m = (1 − n)(ρC)s + n(ρC)f , Km = (1 − n)Ks + nKf (6.4.9)
    Defining
    (ρC)m
    σ= (6.4.10)
    (ρC)f
    and
    Km
    κm = (6.4.11)
    (ρC)f
    as the mixture diffusivity, we can rewrite (6.4.8) as

    ∂T
    σ + u · ∇T = κm ∇2 T (6.4.12)
    ∂t
    Note: Strictly speaking, the above equation ought to be derived from the microscale
    considerations, i.e., by homogenization analysis.
    Equation of state:
    ρf = ρo [1 − β(T − To )] (6.4.13)
    In summary the governing eqautions are (6.4.3), (6.4.4), (6.4.12) and 6.4.13).

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