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彗星活动:彗核近表面多孔层的气体输运

Activity of comets: Gas Transport in the Near-Surface Porous Layers of a Cometary Nucleus

Yu. Skorov, R. van Lieshout, J. Blum, H. U. Keller

摘要:

对非挥发性随机多孔介质中的气体输运进行了数值研究。我们扩展了我们以前对彗星表面最上层内分子传输的研究(Skorov和Rickmann,1995; Skorov等人,2001)。我们评估的有效性简化毛细管模型和它的假设来模拟气体通量通过多孔尘埃地幔,因为它已被应用于彗星物理。提出了一个新的微物理计算模型,用于计算由填充球构成的随机多孔介质中的分子输运。的主要传输特性,如平均自由程分布和渗透率计算了广泛的模型参数,并与更理想化的模型所获得的。在这种比较的重点是在毛细管模型固有的局限性。最后,考虑到渗透率对地层孔隙度的非线性依赖性,提出了调整代数Clausing公式的实用方法。检索的依赖性,使我们能够准确地计算层的渗透性,其厚度和孔隙度的范围内预期的彗星核的近表面区域的值变化。

英文摘要:

The gas transport through non-volatile random porous media is investigated numerically. We extend our previous research of the transport of molecules inside the uppermost layer of a cometary surface (Skorov and Rickmann, 1995; Skorov et al. 2001). We assess the validity of the simplified capillary model and its assumptions to simulate the gas flux trough the porous dust mantle as it has been applied in cometary physics. A new microphysical computational model for molecular transport in random porous media formed by packed spheres is presented. The main transport characteristics such as the mean free path distribution and the permeability are calculated for a wide range of model parameters and compared with those obtained by more idealized models. The focus in this comparison is on limitations inherent in the capillary model. Finally a practical way is suggested to adjust the algebraic Clausing formula taking into consideration the nonlinear dependence of permeability on layer porosity. The retrieved dependence allows us to accurately calculate the permeability of layers whose thickness and porosity vary in the range of values expected for the near-surface regions of a cometary nucleus.

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