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A Numerical Study on Characteristics of Solute Transport in a Rough Single Fracture with Spatial Correlation Length and Effect of Effective Normal Stress

공간적 상관길이와 유효수직응력의 효과에 따른 거친 단일 균열내의 용질이동특성에 관한 수치적 연구

  • 정우창 (경남대학교 토목공학과)
  • Received : 2008.10.27
  • Accepted : 2008.12.02
  • Published : 2009.01.02
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Abstract

This study is to analyze numerically the spatial behaviors of the solute transport in a spatially correlated variable-aperture fracture under the effective normal stress conditions. Numerical results show that the solute transport in a fracture is strongly affected by the spatial correlation length of apertures and applied effective normal stress. According to increasing spatial correlation length, the mean residence time of solute is decreased and the tortuosity and Peclet number (is a dimensionless number relating the rate of advection of a flow to its rate of diffusion) is also decreased. These results mean that the geometry of the aperture distribution is favorable to the solute transport as the spatial correlation length is increased. However, according to the applied effective normal stress is increased, the mean residence time and tortuosity have a tendency to increase but the Peclet number is decreased. The main reason that the Peclet number is decreased, is that the solute is displaced by one or two channels with relatively higher local flow rate due to the increment of contact areas by increasing effective normal stress. Moreover, based on numerical results of the solute transport in this study, the exponential-type correlation formulae between the mean residence time and the effective normal stress are proposed.

본 연구에서는 유효수직응력의 영향을 받고 있으며, 공간적으로 상관된 간극분포를 포함하고 있는 단일 균열 내에서의 용질이동에 대한 공간적 거동을 수치적으로 분석하였다. 분석결과 단일 균열에서의 용질이동은 간극분포의 공간적 상관정도와 적용된 유효수직응력에 크게 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났다. 공간적 상관길이가 증가함에 따라 용질입자의 평균이동시간은 감소하였으며, 또한 용질이동에 대한 굴곡도와 Peclet 수(유체흐름에 의한 용질의 이송율과 분자확산율과의 관계를 나타내는 무차원 수)가 감소하는 경향을 나타내었다. 이는 공간적 상관길이가 증가할수록 단일 균열 내의 간극분포가 용질입자의 이동에 유리하다는 것을 의미한다. 그러나 유효수직응력이 증가할수록 용질입자의 평균이동시간과 굴곡도는 증가하는 경향을 나타냈으며, Peclet 수는 감소하는 경향을 나타냈다. 이는 유효수직응력이 증가할수록 접촉면의 증가로 인해 한 두 개의 상대적으로 큰 국부유량을 가지는 유로를 따라 이동하기 때문인 것으로 판단된다. 또한 본 연구에서 용질이동에 대한 모의된 결과에 근거하여 공간적 상관길이에 따른 유효수직응력과 용질의 평균이동시간과의 관계를 나타내는 지수형태의 상관식을 제안하였다.

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