[Yade-users] [Question #640093]: PFV compressibility, not truly compressible?

2017-06-02 Thread Robert Caulk
New question #640093 on Yade: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/640093 Dear Yade community, The more I learn about the implementation of PFV in Yade, the more impressed I am by how cleverly it is mechanically coupled to the DE and by how efficient it is at solving complex poroelastic

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #640093]: PFV compressibility, not truly compressible?

2017-06-06 Thread Bruno Chareyre
Question #640093 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/640093 Status: Open => Answered Bruno Chareyre proposed the following answer: Hi Robert, Imagine a compressible fluid flowing in a pipe. The fluid density is not the same at the inlet and outlet due to pressure gr

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #640093]: PFV compressibility, not truly compressible?

2017-06-06 Thread Robert Caulk
Question #640093 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/640093 Status: Answered => Solved Robert Caulk confirmed that the question is solved: Dear Bruno, Thank you for the detailed response. At the pore scale of geomaterials, I believe the assumption of local linearity

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #640093]: PFV compressibility, not truly compressible?

2017-06-07 Thread Chareyre
Question #640093 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/640093 Chareyre posted a new comment: By sub-discretizing the flow path we could account for the gradient of viscosity at the throat scale, indeed. The fact is that even at the large scale we do not account for it. We h

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #640093]: PFV compressibility, not truly compressible?

2017-06-07 Thread Robert Caulk
Question #640093 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/640093 Robert Caulk posted a new comment: Yes, the constant viscosity is an ok assumption since we are assuming constant temperatures. If I decide to add thermal processes to yade, I would adjust viscosity as a function

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #640093]: PFV compressibility, not truly compressible?

2017-06-08 Thread Bruno Chareyre
Question #640093 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/640093 Bruno Chareyre posted a new comment: > viscosity is an ok assumption since we are assuming constant temperatures My point was that the change of viscosity by compressibility (not temperature) is what we neglect

Re: [Yade-users] [Question #640093]: PFV compressibility, not truly compressible?

2017-06-08 Thread Robert Caulk
Question #640093 on Yade changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/640093 Robert Caulk posted a new comment: Ah, I think I understand now. You are saying that the only approximation is the constant viscosity. I was just saying the change of viscosity of geofluids as a function of press