The three-dimensional governing equations of the flow field that is developed when
an elasto-plastic exible porous medium, capable of undergoing extremely large
deformations, is struck head-on by a shock wave, are developed using a multi-phase
approach. The one-dimensional version of these equations is solved numerically
using an arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE) based numerical code. The numerical
predictions are compared qualitatively to experimental results from various sources
and good agreement is obtained. This study complements our earlier study in which
we developed and solved, using a total variation diminishing (TVD) based numerical
code, the governing equations of the flow field that is developed when an elastic
rigid porous medium, capable of undergoing only very small deformations, is struck
head-on by a shock wave.
A development is provided showing that for any phase, by not neglecting the macroscopic terms of the deviation from the intensive momentum and of the dispersive momentum, we obtain a macroscopic secondary momentum balance equation coupled with a macroscopic dominant momentum balance equation that is valid at a larger spatial scale. The macroscopic secondary momentum balance equation is in the form of a wave equation that propagates the deviation from the intensive momentum while concurrently, in the case of a Newtonian fluid and under certain assumptions, the macroscopic dominant momentum balance equation may be approximated by Darcy's equation to address drag dominant flow. We then develop extensions to the dominant macroscopic NavierStokes (NS) equation for saturated porous matrices, to account for the pressure gradient at the microscopic solid-fluid interfaces. At the microscopic interfaces we introduce the exchange of inertia between the phases, accounting for the relative fluid square velocities and the rate of these velocities, interpreted as Forchheimer terms. Conditions are provided to approximate the extended dominant NS equation by Forchheimer quadratic momentum law or by Darcy's linear momentum law. We also show that the dominant NS equation can conform into a nonlinear wave equation. The one-dimensional numerical solution of this nonlinear wave equation demonstrates good qualitative agreement with experiments for the case of a highly deformable elasto-plastic matrix.
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