Numerical and experimental study of suffosion/clogging in deformable porous media

Abstract

© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2019. Mathematical model and experiment on suffosion/clogging process are presented. The model is based on the theory of flow in deformable porous media with mass-variable skeleton. It is shown that clogging occurs at a distance from injecting borehole. It is caused by precipitation of particles which were eroded by grounwater flow during the suffosion of the solid skeleton near the borehole.