TRUST84. Sat-Unsat Flow in Deformable Media
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., CA (United States)
TRUST84 solves for transient and steady-state flow in variably saturated deformable media in one, two, or three dimensions. It can handle porous media, fractured media, or fractured-porous media. Boundary conditions may be an arbitrary function of time. Sources or sinks may be a function of time or of potential. The theoretical model considers a general three-dimensional field of flow in conjunction with a one-dimensional vertical deformation field. The governing equation expresses the conservation of fluid mass in an elemental volume that has a constant volume of solids. Deformation of the porous medium may be nonelastic. Permeability and the compressibility coefficients may be nonlinearly related to effective stress. Relationships between permeability and saturation with pore water pressure in the unsaturated zone may be characterized by hysteresis. The relation between pore pressure change and effective stress change may be a function of saturation. The basic calculational model of the conductive heat transfer code TRUMP is applied in TRUST84 to the flow of fluids in porous media. The model combines an integrated finite difference algorithm for numerically solving the governing equation with a mixed explicit-implicit iterative scheme in which the explicit changes in potential are first computed for all elements in the system, after which implicit corrections are made only for those elements for which the stable time-step is less than the time-step being used. Time-step sizes are automatically controlled to optimize the number of iterations, to control maximum change to potential during a time-step, and to obtain desired output information. Time derivatives, estimated on the basis of system behavior during the two previous time-steps, are used to start the iteration process and to evaluate nonlinear coefficients. Both heterogeneity and anisotropy can be handled.
- Research Organization:
- RE/SPEC, Inc., Rapid City, SD (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 138766
- Report Number(s):
- ESTSC-000573C760000; NESC-9788
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 1 Nov 1984
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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