A dissolution model of alite coupling surface topography and ions transport under different hydrodynamics conditions at microscale

Portland cement is the most produced material in the world. The hydration process of cement consists of a group of complex chemical reactions. In order to investigate the mechanism of cement hydration, it is vital to study the hydration of each phase separately. An integrated model is proposed in th...

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Autores: Chen, Jiayi, Martin, Pablo, Xu, Zhiyuan, Manzano, Hegoi, Dolado, Jorge S., Ye, Guang
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:TECNALIA Research & Innovation
Repositorio:TECNALIA Publications
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dsp.tecnalia.com:11556/3171
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11556/3171
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cement hydration
Diffusion boundary layer
Dissolution simulation
Lattice Boltzmann method
Monte Carlo simulation
Building and Construction
General Materials Science
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Sumario:Portland cement is the most produced material in the world. The hydration process of cement consists of a group of complex chemical reactions. In order to investigate the mechanism of cement hydration, it is vital to study the hydration of each phase separately. An integrated model is proposed in this paper to simulate the dissolution of alite under different hydrodynamic conditions at microscale, coupling Kinetic Monte Carlo model (KMC), Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) and diffusion boundary layer (DBL). The dissolution of alite is initialised with KMC. Two Multiple-relaxation-time (MRT) LB models are used to simulate the fluid flow and transport of ions, respectively. For solid-liquid interface, DBL is adapted to calculate the concentration gradient and dissolution flux. The model is validated with experiment from literature. The simulation results show good agreements with the results published in the literature.