diff --git a/web/content/docs/benchmarks/hydro-component/elder.md b/web/content/docs/benchmarks/hydro-component/elder.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..91f81034fed550c648df570793b1c4c512b455b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/web/content/docs/benchmarks/hydro-component/elder.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ ++++ +author = "Marc Walther" +weight = 142 +project = "Parabolic/ComponentTransport/elder/" +date = "2017-09-07T14:41:09+01:00" +title = "Saturated Variable-Density Flow and Mass Transport" + +[menu] + [menu.benchmarks] + parent = "hydro-component" + ++++ + +{{< project-link >}} + + +## Overview + +This benchmark is one of the classical free-convection density-driven flow and mass transport setups. It was originally published by Elder (1965) and has since then been used as a basic test case (Diersch & Kolditz, 1998; Guo & Langevin, 2002), or has been subject to various investigations concerning grid convergence (Graf & Degener, 2011) and numerical stability (Musuuza et al., 2009; Johannsen, 2003). + +For the setup and parameterization, see the chapter "Density dependent flow - The Elder Problem" in Kolditz et al. (2012). + + +## Problem description + +The Elder benchmark describes free convection of a dense fluid in mixable, single-phase environment. A high-concentration solute increases fluid density on the upper boundary and perpetrates the domain by evolving concentration fingers. Here, we compare numerical results of OGS-6 to those of OGS-5. Settings of both simulators were chosen to be as identical as possible. Simulation times were $3300 s$ and $7800 s$ for OGS-6 and OGS-5, respectively. + + +### Model results + +A comparison of the numerical data is shown in the figure below. The numerical results of OGS-6 coincide with those of OGS-5. + +{{< img src="../gif/elder.png" title="Results for numerical (OGS-5 - green, OGS-6 - white) results together with concentration distribution in the domain and mesh resolution for different time steps.">}} + +[The project files are here. ](../../../../../Tests/Data/Parabolic/ComponentTransport/elder) + +## Literature + +Diersch, H.-J.G., Kolditz, O., 1998. Coupled groundwater flow and transport: 2. Thermohaline and 3D convection systems. Adv. Water Resour. 21, 401–425. doi:10.1016/S0309-1708(97)00003-1. + +Elder, J.W., 1965. Numerical experiments with free convection in a vertical slot. J. Fluid Mech. 24, 823. doi:10.1017/S0022112066001022. + +Elder, J., Simmons, C., Diersch, H.-J., FrolkoviÄ, P., Holzbecher, E., Johannsen, K., 2017. The Elder Problem. Fluids 2, 11. doi:10.3390/fluids2010011. + +Graf, T., Degener, L., 2011. Grid convergence of variable-density flow simulations in discretely-fractured porous media. Adv. Water Resour. 34, 760–769. doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2011.04.002. + +Guo, W., Langevin, C.D., 2002. User’s Guide to SEAWAT: A computer program for simulation of three-dimensional variable-density ground-water flow, USGS Techniques of Water Resources Investigations. ISBN: 0607992573. + +Johannsen, K., 2003. On the Validity of the Boussinesq Approximation for the Elder Problem. Comput. Geosci. 7, 169–182. doi:10.1023/A:1025515229807. + +Kolditz, O., Görke, U.-J., Shao, H., Wang, W., 2012. Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical Processes in Porous Media: Benchmarks and Examples, Lecture notes in computational science and engineering. Springer. ISBN: 3642271766. + +Musuuza, J.L., Attinger, S., Radu, F.A., 2009. An extended stability criterion for density-driven flows in homogeneous porous media. Adv. Water Resour. 32, 796–808. doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2009.01.012. diff --git a/web/content/docs/benchmarks/hydro-component/gif/elder.gif b/web/content/docs/benchmarks/hydro-component/gif/elder.gif new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ee3c2489e9c6bf91c5a2ab7cf416d1f200740718 Binary files /dev/null and b/web/content/docs/benchmarks/hydro-component/gif/elder.gif differ