Harnessing elastic instabilities for enhanced mixing and reaction kinetics in porous media

CA Browne, SS Datta - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024 - pnas.org
Turbulent flows have been used for millennia to mix solutes; a familiar example is stirring
cream into coffee. However, many energy, environmental, and industrial processes rely on …

Random resetting in search problems

A Pal, V Stojkoski, T Sandev - Target Search Problems, 2024 - Springer
By repeatedly returning a search process to a known or random state, random resetting
possesses the potential to unveil new trajectories, sidestep potential obstacles, and …

Chaotic Transport of Solutes in Unsaturated Porous Media

A Velásquez-Parra, F Marone, M Griffa… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Unsaturated porous media, characterized by the combined presence of several immiscible
fluid phases in the pore space, are highly relevant systems in nature, because they control …

[HTML][HTML] Resolving pore-scale concentration gradients for transverse mixing and reaction in porous media

P Shafabakhsh, T Le Borgne, F Renard… - Advances in Water …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mixing-limited reactions are central to a wide range of processes in natural and engineered
porous media. Recent advances have shown that concentration gradients sustained by flow …

Equilibrium distributions under advection–diffusion in laminar channel flow with partially absorbing boundaries

T Aquino - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
Advective–diffusive transport in Poiseuille flow through a channel with partially absorbing
walls is a classical problem with applications to a broad range of natural and engineered …