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Old   February 8, 2010, 14:37
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I am new to Phoenics and wondering if anyone can let me know how to set the domain as a porous medium (to represent the soils and rocks underground).

Basically I am trying to set up a model to calucate the conduction and convection heat trasnfer through a vertical pipe buried underground within a borehole.

In addtion, is that possible to set a cylinder object (as a circular borehole) with a porous surface? I have tired but only if the object type is plate (with no thickness), not cylinder.

Thanks a lot for your help !!!!!!!!!
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Hello nms,
to set the domain as a porous media i would try to set the domain first as air then make a new object with the size of the domain an set it as solid.
In the q1 file you can set the porosity, take a look here:
http://www.cham.co.uk/phoenics/d_pol...enc_p.htm#poro
I haven´t done it myself yet but i think this will work, and the same way with the porous surface i think.
Hope this helps
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Old   February 15, 2010, 13:22
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Thanks a lot Linh

By the way, do you know how to set up an annulus object as well ? There is a pipe located at the middle of the borehole to extract water out from the ground, but the water is discharged to the borehole directly through the annulus space.
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Hello nms,
i´m not quite sure what do you want to model. As far as I understand you´ve got a pipe in a hole in the ground, so i would make a pipe in a pipe. The outer pipe is filled with air(domain material) and the inner pipe filled with water. The surroundings of the hole (outer pipe) is then your porous media.
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