Bottom-up model of adsorption and transport in multiscale porous media

Alexandru Boţan, Franz-Josef Ulm, Roland J.-M. Pellenq, and Benoit Coasne
Phys. Rev. E 91, 032133 – Published 20 March 2015

Abstract

We develop a model of transport in multiscale porous media which accounts for adsorption in the different porosity scales. This model employs statistical mechanics to upscale molecular simulation and describe adsorption and transport at larger time and length scales. Using atom-scale simulations, which capture the changes in adsorption and transport with temperature, pressure, pore size, etc., this approach does not assume any adsorption or flow type. Moreover, by relating the local chemical potential μ(r) and density ρ(r), the present model accounts for adsorption effects and possible changes in the confined fluid state upon transport. This model constitutes a bottom-up framework of adsorption and transport in multiscale materials as it (1) describes the adsorption-transport interplay, (2) accounts for the hydrodynamics breakdown at the nm scale, and (3) is multiscale.

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  • Received 8 January 2014
  • Revised 9 June 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.032133

©2015 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Alexandru Boţan, Franz-Josef Ulm, Roland J.-M. Pellenq, and Benoit Coasne*

  • MultiScale Materials Science for Energy and Environment, UMI 3466 CNRS-MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

  • *coasne@mit.edu

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Vol. 91, Iss. 3 — March 2015

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