Single and two-scale sharp-interface models for concrete carbonation -- asymptotics and numerical approximation

DOI10.1137/110859701MaRDI QIDQ4903658zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrea Fernández, Adrian Muntean, J. D. Evans

Publication date 24 January 2013

Published in Multiscale Modeling & Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.6314, http://opus.bath.ac.uk/32410/1/Evans_Multiscale_Model_Sim_2012_10_3_874.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

concrete carbonationfast-reaction asymptoticsmatched asymptoticsnumerical approximation of reaction frontsreaction layer analysistwo-scale sharp-interface models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Chemical kinetics in thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A30) Classical flows, reactions, etc. in chemistry (92E20)

Abstract: We investigate the fast-reaction asymptotics for a one-dimensional reaction-diffusion (RD) system describing the penetration of the carbonation reaction in concrete. The technique of matched-asymptotics is used to show that the RD system leads to two distinct classes of sharp-interface models, that correspond to different scalings in a small parameter epsilon representing the fast-reaction. Here epsilon is the ratio between the characteristic scale of the diffusion of the fastest species and the one of the carbonation reaction. We explore three conceptually different scaling regimes (in terms of epsilon) of the effective diffusivities of the driving chemical species. The limiting models include one-phase and two-phase generalised Stefan moving-boundary problems as well as a nonstandard two-scale (micro-macro) moving-boundary problem -- the main result of the paper. Numerical results, supporting the asymptotics, illustrate the behavior of the concentration profiles for relevant parameter regimes.

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