Beschreibung:
<jats:p>Acoustic dissipation in porous media is mainly due to viscous and thermal mechanisms that occur in the pores of the microstructure. The purpose of this study is the determination of the macroscopic dynamic acoustic bulk modulus and thermal permeability of real foams from a local scale approach. To achieve this goal, two distinct steps are followed. First, the local geometry of a real foam is obtained using computed microtomography (μCT), then a periodic and regularly paving space tetrakaidecahedron cell is identified from the microstructure. Second, the heat equation is solved for the geometrical model. The paper provides a three-dimensional application of the efficient simulation technique of Brownian motion proposed by Torquato et al. for steady state diffusion-controlled problems [Appl. Phys. Lett. 55, 1847–1849 (1989)] and adapted by Lafarge [Poromechanics II, 708 (2002)] in a bi-dimensional case. The influence of the model’s microstructural details (anisotropy, and struts junction and cross-section) on the macroscopic properties are studied. The predictions of the macroscopic properties using this local scale approach are then compared to experimental measurements.</jats:p>