TY - JOUR
T1 - Effective transient behaviour of heterogeneous media in diffusion problems with a large contrast in the phase diffusivities
AU - Brassart, Laurence
AU - Stainier, Laurent
PY - 2019/3/1
Y1 - 2019/3/1
N2 - This paper presents a homogenisation-based constitutive model to describe the effective transient diffusion behaviour in heterogeneous media in which there is a large contrast between the phase diffusivities. In this case mobile species can diffuse over long distances through the fast phase in the time scale of diffusion in the slow phase. At macroscopic scale, contrasted phase diffusivities lead to a memory effect that cannot be properly described by classical Fick's second law. Here we obtain effective governing equations through a two-scale approach for composite materials consisting of a fast matrix and slow inclusions. The micro-macro transition is similar to first-order computational homogenisation, and involves the solution of a transient diffusion boundary-value problem in a Representative Volume Element of the microstructure. Different from computational homogenisation, we propose a semi-analytical mean-field estimate of the composite response based on the exact solution for a single inclusion developed in our previous work [Brassart, L., Stainier, L., 2018. Effective transient behaviour of inclusions in diffusion problems. Z. Angew Math. Mech. 98, 981–998]. A key outcome of the model is that the macroscopic concentration is not one-to-one related to the macroscopic chemical potential, but obeys a local kinetic equation associated with diffusion in the slow phase. The history-dependent macroscopic response admits a representation based on internal variables, enabling efficient time integration. We show that the local chemical kinetics can result in non-Fickian behaviour in macroscale boundary-value problems.
AB - This paper presents a homogenisation-based constitutive model to describe the effective transient diffusion behaviour in heterogeneous media in which there is a large contrast between the phase diffusivities. In this case mobile species can diffuse over long distances through the fast phase in the time scale of diffusion in the slow phase. At macroscopic scale, contrasted phase diffusivities lead to a memory effect that cannot be properly described by classical Fick's second law. Here we obtain effective governing equations through a two-scale approach for composite materials consisting of a fast matrix and slow inclusions. The micro-macro transition is similar to first-order computational homogenisation, and involves the solution of a transient diffusion boundary-value problem in a Representative Volume Element of the microstructure. Different from computational homogenisation, we propose a semi-analytical mean-field estimate of the composite response based on the exact solution for a single inclusion developed in our previous work [Brassart, L., Stainier, L., 2018. Effective transient behaviour of inclusions in diffusion problems. Z. Angew Math. Mech. 98, 981–998]. A key outcome of the model is that the macroscopic concentration is not one-to-one related to the macroscopic chemical potential, but obeys a local kinetic equation associated with diffusion in the slow phase. The history-dependent macroscopic response admits a representation based on internal variables, enabling efficient time integration. We show that the local chemical kinetics can result in non-Fickian behaviour in macroscale boundary-value problems.
KW - Heat transfer
KW - Homogenisation
KW - Mass transfer
KW - Mean-field model
KW - Memory effect
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85055914316&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jmps.2018.10.021
DO - 10.1016/j.jmps.2018.10.021
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85055914316
VL - 124
SP - 366
EP - 391
JO - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
JF - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
SN - 0022-5096
ER -