Towards understanding factors affecting arsenic, chromium, and vanadium mobility in the subsurface

HR Peel, FO Balogun, CA Bowers, CT Miller… - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Arsenic (As), chromium (Cr), and vanadium (V) are naturally occurring, redox-active
elements that can become human health hazards when they are released from aquifer …

Reactive transport in porous media: a review of recent mathematical efforts in modeling geochemical reactions in petroleum subsurface reservoirs

AS Abd, AS Abushaikha - SN Applied Sciences, 2021 - Springer
The rapid advancements in the computational abilities of numerical simulations have
attracted researchers to work on the area of reactive transport in porous media to improve …

Mixing-limited reactions in porous media

AJ Valocchi, D Bolster, CJ Werth - Transport in Porous Media, 2019 - Springer
Mixing-driven reactions in porous media are ubiquitous and span natural and engineered
environments, yet predicting where and how quickly reactions occur is immensely …

Experimental and numerical investigation of fluid flow hydrodynamics in porous media: Characterization of pre-Darcy, Darcy and non-Darcy flow regimes

P Kundu, V Kumar, IM Mishra - Powder Technology, 2016 - Elsevier
In the present study, incompressible single phase fluid percolation through different types
(homogeneous and mixed isotropic) of porous media was investigated experimentally. The …

Physical heterogeneity control on effective mineral dissolution rates

H Jung, A Navarre-Sitchler - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Hydrologic heterogeneity may be an important factor contributing to the discrepancy in
laboratory and field measured dissolution rates, but the governing factors influencing …

Enhancement of plume dilution in two‐dimensional and three‐dimensional porous media by flow focusing in high‐permeability inclusions

Y Ye, G Chiogna, OA Cirpka… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In porous media, lateral mass exchange exerts a significant influence on the dilution of
solute plumes in quasi steady state. This process is one of the main mechanisms controlling …

Elimination of the reaction rate “scale effect”: Application of the Lagrangian reactive particle‐tracking method to simulate mixing‐limited, field‐scale biodegradation at …

D Ding, DA Benson… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Measured (or empirically fitted) reaction rates at groundwater remediation sites are typically
much lower than those found in the same material at the batch or laboratory scale. The …

Suitability of 2D modelling to evaluate flow properties in 3D porous media

E Marafini, M La Rocca, A Fiori, I Battiato… - Transport in Porous …, 2020 - Springer
The employment of 2D models to investigate the properties of 3D flows in porous media is
ubiquitous in the literature. The limitations of such approaches are often overlooked. Here …

A particle number conserving L agrangian method for mixing‐driven reactive transport

D Bolster, A Paster, DA Benson - Water Resources Research, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The purely Lagrangian algorithm for chemical reactions introduced by Benson and
Meerschaert (2008) suffers from a low‐concentration resolution problem. We alleviate the …

Scale effect on the time dependence of mineral dissolution rates in physically heterogeneous porous media

H Jung, A Navarre-Sitchler - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Hydrologic heterogeneity complicates the time dependent behavior of mineral dissolution
rates and introduces large uncertainty in effective surface area estimation. In order to resolve …