Pore-scale numerical investigation of the impacts of surface roughness: Upscaling of reaction rates in rough fractures

H Deng, S Molins, D Trebotich, C Steefel… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
The roughness of solid surfaces influences mineral dissolution rates by affecting flow and
transport in the near-surface regions and by increasing the surface area available for …

Upscaling solute transport in rough single-fractured media with matrix diffusion using a time fractional advection-dispersion equation

D Lei, HG Sun, Y Zhang, T Blaszczyk, Z Yu - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Complex structures in fractures and the rock matrix, which are difficult to map exhaustively at
the local scale, can dominate contaminant transport in fractured aquifers. An upscaled …

Geometry‐based prediction of solute transport process in single 3D rock fractures under laminar flow regime

JQ Zhou, LG Guo, JJ Jiao, X Luo - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Subsurface substance migration in the fractured rock aquifer is mainly controlled by
fractures, and prediction of solute transport in fractures is important to many geophysical …

Dissolution regimes of a horizontal channel in a gravity field

W Guo, R Hu, CX Zhou, Z Yang, YF Chen - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
Buoyancy-driven dissolution of the solid phase is common in natural processes and
subsurface applications, such as geomorphology, solution mining, and geological CO 2 …

Evaluation of water permeability of rough fractures based on a self-affine fractal model and optimized segmentation algorithm

Y Ju, J Dong, F Gao, J Wang - Advances in Water Resources, 2019 - Elsevier
The water permeability of natural fractures is highly related to their morphological
characteristics. For fractures with irregular profiles and variable apertures, it is challenging to …

Upscaling of Se (IV) sorption coefficients with hierarchical mineral characterization in multi-scale fractured granite

F Ma, X Zhang, C Zhan, W Chen, L Qi, Z Dai - … Research and Risk …, 2023 - Springer
The radionuclides sorption on fractured rocks is greatly influenced by the constituent
minerals and their spatial variations of the fracture matrix. The mineral heterogeneity …

Distributed order Hausdorff derivative diffusion model to characterize non-Fickian diffusion in porous media

Y Liang, W Chen, W Xu, HG Sun - Communications in Nonlinear Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Many theoretical and experimental results show that solute transport in heterogeneous
porous media exhibits multi-scaling behaviors. To describe such non-Fickian diffusion, this …

Fluid inertia controls mineral precipitation and clogging in pore to network-scale flows

W Yang, MA Chen, SH Lee, PK Kang - Proceedings of the National …, 2024 - pnas.org
Mineral precipitation caused by fluid mixing presents complex control and predictability
challenges in a variety of natural and engineering processes, including carbon …

A novel equivalent model of radionuclide migration in three-dimensional rough shear fractures

H Wang, G Ji, Y Chen, G Ma - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2024 - Elsevier
Accurate prediction of radionuclide distribution in fractured rock mass is a key problem in
high-level radioactive waste disposal engineering. However, it is inappropriate to directly …

A time-space Hausdorff derivative model for anomalous transport in porous media

Y Liang, N Su, W Chen - Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis, 2019 - degruyter.com
This paper presents a time-space Hausdorff derivative model for depicting solute transport in
aquifers or water flow in heterogeneous porous media. In this model, the time and space …