Effects of Cemented Porous Media on Temporal Mixing Behavior of Conservative Solute Transport

Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media

Solute mass transport in porous media is strongly correlated with pore fluid flow. The analysis of solute transport is an effective means for studying medium heterogeneities. In this study, we discuss the effects of heterogeneity on the tracer transport. Assuming steady fluid flow, we have simulated tracer transport in various permeability heterogeneities. The results show that the tracer distr...

Solute Transport in Porous Media. Media with Capillaries as Voids

We study solute transport in porous media with periodic microstructures consisting of interconnected thin channels. We discuss a local physical mechanism that occurs at the intersections of channels and promotes mixing of the solute with the solvent (i.e., the host liquid). We identify the parameter regime, where this mechanism is the dominant cause of dispersion, and obtain the effective or ma...

Convergent mass conservative schemes for flow and reactive solute transport in variably saturated porous media

Solute transport in porous media: Dispersion tensor of periodic networks

Transport of contaminants in soils, nutrients in bones, and movement of minerals in soils are examples of solute transport in porous media. Theoretical methods used to study solute transport in porous media include numerical experiments on networks, on media with fractal geometry and percolation methods; method of moments and homogenization techniques on periodic media, and method of moments on...

Pore scale simulation of solute transport in fractured porous media

[1] We investigate the effects of the porosity (and thus permeability) of porous matrix and the fracture aperture on transport in fractured porous media. We do so with detailed lattice Boltzmann simulations on constructed porous media with a single fracture. Both plume spatial moments (the average plume velocity and the dispersion coefficients) and mass transfer coefficients between the facture...