Vigorous convection in porous media

DR Hewitt - Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The problem of convection in a fluid-saturated porous medium is reviewed with a focus on
'vigorous' convective flow, when the driving buoyancy forces are large relative to any …

Convective mixing in porous media: a review of Darcy, pore-scale and Hele-Shaw studies

M De Paoli - The European Physical Journal E, 2023 - Springer
Convection-driven porous media flows are common in industrial processes and in nature.
The multiscale and multiphase character of these systems and the inherent nonlinear flow …

A Novel Experimental Study on Density‐Driven Instability and Convective Dissolution in Porous Media

R Guo, H Sun, Q Zhao, Z Li, Y Liu… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Geological carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration (GCS) in deep saline aquifers is a promising
solution to mitigate the impact of anthropogenic CO2 emissions on global climate change …

Effect of dispersion on solutal convection in porous media

Y Liang, B Wen, MA Hesse… - Geophysical Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Solutal convection in porous media is thought to be controlled by the molecular Rayleigh
number, R am, the ratio of the buoyant driving force over diffusive dissipation. The mass flux …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of reservoir properties on the dynamics of a migrating current of carbon dioxide

M De Paoli - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Storage of carbon dioxide (CO 2) in saline aquifers is a promising tool to stabilize the
anthropogenic CO 2 emissions. At the reservoir conditions, injected CO 2 is buoyant with …

Lattice Boltzmann modeling of interfacial mass transfer in a multiphase system

JY Yang, XY Dai, QH Xu, ZY Liu, L Shi, W Long - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
In the present study, a numerical model based on the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is
proposed to simulate multiphase mass transfer, referred to as the CST-LB model. This model …

Towards the ultimate regime in Rayleigh–Darcy convection

S Pirozzoli, M De Paoli, F Zonta… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Towards the ultimate regime in Rayleigh–Darcy convection Page 1 J. Fluid Mech. (2021), vol.
911, R4, doi:10.1017/jfm.2020.1178 Towards the ultimate regime in Rayleigh–Darcy convection …

Convective dissolution of carbon dioxide in deep saline aquifers: Insights from engineering a high-pressure porous visual cell

S Mahmoodpour, B Rostami, MR Soltanian… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
We present the first experiments of dissolution-driven convection of carbon dioxide (CO 2) in
a confined brine-saturated porous medium at high pressures. We designed an alternative …

How non-Darcy effects influence scaling laws in Hele-Shaw convection experiments

M De Paoli, M Alipour, A Soldati - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
We examine experimentally the influence of non-Darcy effects on convective dissolution in
Hele-Shaw cells. We focus on buoyancy-driven convection, where the flow is controlled by …

Strong Rayleigh–Darcy convection regime in three-dimensional porous media

M De Paoli, S Pirozzoli, F Zonta… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
We perform large-scale numerical simulations to study Rayleigh–Darcy convection in three-
dimensional fluid-saturated porous media up to Rayleigh–Darcy number regime typically …