Sergi, Danilo and Grossi, Loris and Leidi, Tiziano and Ortona, Alberto (2014) Surface growth effects on reactive capillary-driven flow: Lattice Boltzmann investigation. Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 8 (4). 549 - 561. ISSN 1994-2060
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The Washburn law has always played a critical role for ceramics. In the microscale, surface forces take over volume forces and the phenomenon of spontaneous infiltration in narrow interstices becomes of particular relevance. The Lattice Boltzmann method is applied in order to ascertain the role of surface reaction and subsequent deformation of a single capillary in 2D for the linear Washburn behavior. The proposed investigation is motivated by the problem of reactive infiltration of molten silicon into carbon preforms. This is a complex phenomenon arising from the interplay between fluid flow, the transition to wetting, surface growth and heat transfer. Furthermore, it is characterized by slow infiltration velocities in narrow interstices resulting in small Reynolds numbers that are difficult to reproduce with a single capillary. In our simulations, several geometric characteristics for the capillaries are considered, as well as different infiltration and reaction conditions. The main result of our work is that the phenomenon of pore closure can be regarded as independent of the infiltration velocity, and in turn a number of other parameters. The instrumental conclusion drawn from our simulations is that short pores with wide openings and a round-shaped morphology near the throats represent the optimal configuration for the underlying structure of the porous preform in order to achieve faster infiltration. The role of the approximations is discussed in detail and the robustness of our findings is assessed.
| Item Type: | Scientific journal article, Newspaper article or Magazine article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | capillary infiltration, surface growth, Lattice Boltzmann simulation, liquid silicon infiltration |
| Subjects: | Physical sciences > Materials science Physical sciences > Physics > Computational physics Engineering > Production & manufacturing engineering |
| Depositing User: | Danilo Sergi |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2015 06:53 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jul 2016 06:19 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/5901 |
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