Bentonite swelling characteristics with a hypersaline multi-component pore fluid

Wetting problem for multi-component fluid mixtures

In this paper we propose an extension of the Cahn method [1] to binary mixtures and study the problem of wetting near a two-phase critical point without any assumption on the form of intermolecular potentials. A comparison between Cahn’s method and later works by Sullivan [2,3], Evans et al [4,5] is made. By using an expression of the energy of interaction between solid surface and liquids prop...

Multi-Component Efficiency with Shared Resources in Commercial Banks

A New Continuous Multi-State Reliability Model with Time Dependent Component Performance Rate

A CSS1†is a system with the continues-state components. When a component has the ability to obtain all the situations from completely working to completely failed, it named continues-state component. In the real world, performance rate of elements are continuous and decrease by time. Continuity of components causes infinite working states and grows up the system states. In this paper we propose...

A coupled THC model of the FEBEX in situ test with bentonite swelling and chemical and thermal osmosis.

The performance assessment of a geological repository for radioactive waste requires quantifying the geochemical evolution of the bentonite engineered barrier. This barrier will be exposed to coupled thermal (T), hydrodynamic (H), mechanical (M) and chemical (C) processes. This paper presents a coupled THC model of the FEBEX (Full-scale Engineered Barrier EXperiment) in situ test which accounts...

Approximation of Time-Dependent, Multi-Component, Viscoelastic Fluid Flow

In this article we analyse a fully discrete approximation to the time dependent viscoelasticity equations allowing for multicomponent fluid flow. The Oldroyd B constitutive equation is used to model the viscoelastic stress. For the discretization, time derivatives are replaced by backward difference quotients, and the non-linear terms are linearized by lagging appropriate factors. The modeling ...