Homogenisation of local colloid evolution induced by reaction and diffusion

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Abstract: We consider the homogenisation of a coupled reaction-diffusion process in a porous medium with evolving microstructure. A concentration-dependent reaction rate at the interface of the pores with the solid matrix induces a concentration-dependent evolution of the domain. Hence, the evolution is fully coupled with the reaction-diffusion process. In order to pass to the homogenisation limit, we employ the two-scale-transformation method. Thus, we homogenise a highly non-linear problem in a periodic and in time cylindrical domain instead. The homogenisation result is a reaction-diffusion equation, which is coupled with an internal variable, representing the local evolution of the pore structure.


In this paper, the authors revisit the microscale model proposed recently by \textit{A. Muntean} and \textit{C. Nikolopoulos} [SIAM J. Appl. Math. 80, No. 1, 448--475 (2020; Zbl 1435.35038)] to describe the time and space evolution of a family of \(N\)-types of populations of colloids undergoing coagulation and fragmentation in a locally periodic porous medium. The focus is here on a single reaction-diffusion equation (so, \(N=1\), say, for the case of the population of monomers). One obtains once more the known upscaled model, now by means of a mathematically rigorous homogenisation procedure based on the so-called two-scale-transformation method; the details of this averaging method can be found in the PhD thesis by the first author of this work.



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