Permeability of mixed soft and hard granular material: hydrogels as drainage modifiers

Details Permeability of mixed soft and hard granular material: hydrogels as drainage modifiers Permeability of mixed soft and hard granular material: hydrogels as drainage modifiers

2011-03-22

arxiv.org/abs/1103.4338v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

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We measure the flow of water through mixed packings of glass spheres and soft swellable hydrogel grains, at constant sample volume. Permeability values are obtained at constant sample volume and at porosities smaller than random close packing, for different glass bead diameters $D$ and for variable gel grain diameter $d$, as controlled by the salinity of the water. The gel content is also varied. We find that the permeability decays exponentially in $n(D/d)^b$ where $n=N_{gel}/N_{glass}$ is the gel to glass bead number ratio and $b$ is approximately 3. Therefore, flow properties are determined by the volume fraction of gel beads. A simple model based on the porosity of overlapping spheres is used to account for these observations.

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