http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987112000369 |
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| Authors: | ,
NNatarajan
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GSuresh Kumar |
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| Institution: | 1. EWRE Division, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai 36, India
2. Department of Ocean Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai 36, India |
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| Abstract: | A numerical model is developed for describing the transport of virus in a fracture-matrix coupled system with fracture-skin. An advective dispersive virus transport equation, including first-order sorption and inactivation constant is used for simulating the movement of viruses. Implicit finite-difference numerical technique is used to solve the coupled non-linear governing equations for the triple continuum model consisting of fracture, fracture-skin and the rock-matrix. A varying grid is adopted at the fracture and fracture-skin interface to capture the mass transfer. Sensitivity analysis was performed to investigate the effect of various properties of the fracture-skin as well as viruses on the virus concentration in the fractured formation with fracture-skin. Simulation results suggest that the virus concentration in the fracture decreases with increment in the fracture-skin porosity, fracture-skin diffusion coefficient, mass transfer coefficient, inactivation constant and sorption distribution coefficient, and with reduction in the fracture aperture. |
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| Keywords: | Fracture-skin Virus transport Rock-matrix Fracture |
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