Hysteresis of Percolation Transition and Relaxation of Fast and Slow States of the System Nanoporous Medium - Non-Wetting Liquid

Abstract

In the present paper we present the results of experimental and theoretical studies of intrusion-extrusion and relaxation of non-wetting liquid in three Fluka porous media. New data on hysteresis of intrusion-extrusion and dependence of the degree of filling of a porous body on time in the process of extrusion were obtained experimentally. It has been established that in all the conducted experiments the liquid extrusion took place in two stages: at the first stage of fast relaxation the characteristic time of outflow is several seconds, at the second stage of slow relaxation the characteristic time is several hundred seconds. The experimental data obtained are described in the theoretical model [1]. For the studied porous media, the existence at the initial moment of time of local states with short leakage times (a few seconds or less) and states with large leakage times (hundreds of seconds) was established. Porous bodies in which the coexistence of fast and slow states at the initial moment of time is established are investigated for the first time.