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Mathematical modelling and numerical simulation of reverse-osmosis desalination
Nicodemo Di Pasquale, Mayo Akele, Federico Municchi +2
The reverse osmosis membrane module is an integral element of a desalination system as it determines the overall performance of the desalination plant. The fraction of clean water…
Computational framework for complex flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media
Matteo Icardi, Eugenio Pescimoro, Federico Municchi +1
We present a flexible scalable open-source computational framework, named SECUReFoam, based on the finite-volume library OpenFOAM(R), for flow and transport problems in highly hete…
Electrochemical transport modelling and open-source simulation of pore-scale solid-liquid systems
Robert Barnett, Federico Municchi, John King +1
The modelling of electrokinetic flows is a critical aspect spanning many industrial applications and research fields. This has introduced great demand in flexible numerical solvers…
Splitting Schemes for Coupled Differential Equations: Block Schur-Based Approaches and Partial Jacobi Approximation
Roberto Nuca, Erlend Storvik, Florin A. Radu +1
Coupled multi-physics problems are encountered in countless applications and pose significant numerical challenges. Although monolithic approaches offer possibly the best solution…
Emergence of non-Fickian transport in truncated pluri-Gaussian permeability fields
Eugenio Pescimoro, Matteo Icardi, Giovanni Porta +1
We present a numerical simulation study of advective-diffusive scalar transport in three-dimensional high-contrast discontinuous permeability fields, generated with a truncated plu…
Population balance models for particulate flows in porous media:breakage and shear-induced events
Matteo Icardi, Nicodemo Di Pasquale, Eleonora Crevacore +2
Transport and particulate processes are ubiquitous in environmental, industrial and biological applications, often involving complex geometries and porous media. In this work we pr…
A Systematic Analysis of the Memory term in Coarse-Grained models: the case of the Markovian Approximation
N. Di Pasquale, T. Hudson, M. Icardi +2
The systematic development of Coarse-Grained (CG) models via the Mori-Zwanzig projector operator formalism requires the explicit description of several terms, including a determini…
Heterogeneous Multi-Rate mass transfer models in OpenFOAM
Federico Municchi, Nicodemo di Pasquale, Marco Dentz +1
We implement the Multi-Rate Mass Transfer (MRMT) model for mobile-immobile transport in porous media within the open-source finite volume library \textsc{OpenFOAM}\reg \citep{Found…
Computational analysis of transport in three-dimensional heterogeneous materials
Gianluca Boccardo, Eleonora Crevacore, Alberto Passalacqua +1
Porous and heterogeneous materials are found in many applications from composites, membranes, chemical reactors, and other engineered materials to biological matter and natural sub…
Optimisation of crust freezing in meat processing via Computational Fluid Dynamics
Evaldas Greiciunas, Federico Municchi, Nicodemo Di Pasquale +1
In this work a numerical model for two-dimensional axisymmetric continuous freezing by impingement of processed meat or similar products in food industry moving along a conveyor be…
Macroscopic models for filtration and heterogeneous reactions in porous media
Federico Municchi, Matteo Icardi
Derivation of macroscopic models for advection-diffusion processes in the presence of dominant heterogeneous (e.g., surface) reactions using homogenisation theory or volume averagi…
Probability density function (PDF) models for particle transport in porous media
Matteo Icardi, Marco Dentz
Mathematical models based on probability density functions (PDF) have been extensively used in hydrology and subsurface flow problems, to describe the uncertainty in porous media p…
Generalised Multi-Rate Models for conjugate transfer in heterogeneous materials
Federico Municchi, Matteo Icardi
We propose a novel macroscopic model for conjugate heat and mass transfer between a \emph{mobile region}, where advective transport is significant, and a set of \emph{immobile regi…
Molecular Information Delivery in Porous Media
Yuting Fang, Weisi Guo, Matteo Icardi +2
Information delivery via molecular signals is abundant in nature and potentially useful for industry sensing. Many propagation channels (e.g., tissue membranes and catalyst beds) c…
Systematic derivation of hybrid coarse-grained models
Nicodemo Di Pasquale, Thomas Hudson, Matteo Icardi
Significant efforts have been devoted in the last decade towards improving the predictivity of coarse-grained models in molecular dynamics simulations and providing a rigorous just…
Mechanisms of Dispersion in a Porous Medium
Marco Dentz, Matteo Icardi, Juan J. Hidalgo
This paper studies the mechanisms of dispersion in the laminar flow through the pore space of a -dimensional porous medium. We focus on pre-asymptotic transport prior to the asy…
A robust upscaling of the effective particle deposition rate in porous media
Gianluca Boccardo, Eleonora Crevacore, Rajandrea Sethi +1
In the upscaling from pore- to continuum (Darcy) scale, reaction and deposition phenomena at the solid-liquid interface of a porous medium have to be represented by macroscopic rea…
Solving the Klein-Gordon equation using Fourier spectral methods: A benchmark test for computer performance
S. Aseeri, O. Batrašev, M. Icardi +12
The cubic Klein-Gordon equation is a simple but non-trivial partial differential equation whose numerical solution has the main building blocks required for the solution of many ot…