Asymptotics for filtration of polydisperse suspension with small impurities

Abstract

A model for deep bed filtration of a polydisperse suspension with small impurities in a porous medium is considered. Different suspended particles move with the same velocity as the carrier water and get blocked in the pore throats due to the size-exclusion mechanism of particle retention. A solution of the model in the form of a traveling wave is obtained. The global exact solution for a multiparticle filtration with one high concentration and several low concentrations of suspended particles is obtained in an explicit form. The analytic solutions for a bidisperse suspension with large and small particles are constructed. The profiles of the retained small particles change monotony with time. The global asymptotics for the filtration of a polydisperse suspension with small kinetic rates is constructed in the whole filtration zone.