Mixing, spreading and reaction in heterogeneous media: A brief review

M Dentz, T Le Borgne, A Englert, B Bijeljic - Journal of contaminant …, 2011 - Elsevier
Geological media exhibit heterogeneities in their hydraulic and chemical properties, which
can lead to enhanced spreading and mixing of the transported species and induce an …

Mixing in porous media: concepts and approaches across scales

M Dentz, JJ Hidalgo, D Lester - Transport in Porous Media, 2023 - Springer
This review provides an overview of concepts and approaches for the quantification of
passive, non-reactive solute mixing in steady uniform porous media flows across scales …

A primer on upscaling tools for porous media

JH Cushman, LS Bennethum, BX Hu - Advances in Water Resources, 2002 - Elsevier
Over the last few decades a number of powerful approaches have been developed to
intelligently reduce the number of degrees of freedom in very complex heterogeneous …

Non-Fickian mixing: Temporal evolution of the scalar dissipation rate in heterogeneous porous media

T Le Borgne, M Dentz, D Bolster, J Carrera… - Advances in Water …, 2010 - Elsevier
We investigate the temporal scaling properties of mixing in heterogeneous permeability
fields with variances ranging from very small (σlnK2= 0.01) to very large (σlnK2= 9). We …

Characterization of mixing and dilution in heterogeneous aquifers by means of local temporal moments

OA Cirpka, PK Kitanidis - Water Resources Research, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Breakthrough curves of a conservative tracer in a heterogeneous two‐dimensional aquifer
are analyzed by means of their temporal moments. The average velocity and the …

Simulation of chemical reaction via particle tracking: Diffusion‐limited versus thermodynamic rate‐limited regimes

DA Benson, MM Meerschaert - Water Resources Research, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Chemical reactions may be simulated without regard to local concentrations by applying
simple probabilistic rules of particle interaction and combination. The forward reaction A+ …

Flow topology and scalar mixing in spatially heterogeneous flow fields

FPJ De Barros, M Dentz, J Koch… - Geophysical Research …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Scalar mixing plays a significant role for transport in geophysical flows because it controls
dilution and is a main driver for many chemical reactions. Here we study the local scale flow …

Concentration fluctuations in aquifer transport: A rigorous first-order solution and applications

A Fiori, G Dagan - Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 2000 - Elsevier
Flow and transport take place in a formation of spatially variable conductivity K (x). The latter
is modeled as a lognormal stationary random space function. With Y= lnK, the structure is …

Evaluating the effects of multiscale heterogeneous sediments on solute mixing and effective dispersion

W Ren, R Ershadnia, CD Wallace… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The heterogeneity of sedimentary aquifers can be characterized by parameters related to
the underlying sedimentary structure such as physical attributes of sediments (eg, volume …

Persistent questions of heterogeneity, uncertainty, and scale in subsurface flow and transport

PK Kitanidis - Water Resources Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract When Water Resources Research was launched in 1965, heterogeneity,
uncertainty, and scale issues in subsurface hydrology were in the backburner. Only about 10 …