Mixing and reactive fronts in the subsurface

M Rolle, T Le Borgne - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The interplay between mixing and reactive processes plays a pivotal role in a range of
biogeochemical processes controlling the transport, transformation and turnover of chemical …

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 …

Enhanced reaction kinetics and reactive mixing scale dynamics in mixing fronts under shear flow for arbitrary Damköhler numbers

A Bandopadhyay, T Le Borgne, Y Méheust… - Advances in water …, 2017 - Elsevier
Mixing fronts, where fluids of different chemical compositions mix with each other, are known
to represent hotspots of chemical reaction in hydrological systems. These fronts are typically …

Lagrangian simulation of mixing and reactions in complex geochemical systems

NB Engdahl, DA Benson… - Water Resources Research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Simulations of detailed geochemical systems have traditionally been restricted to Eulerian
reactive transport algorithms. This note introduces a Lagrangian method for modeling …

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 …

Mixing controlled adsorption at the liquid-solid interfaces in unsaturated porous media

I Markale, A Velásquez-Parra, A Alcolea… - Transport in Porous …, 2023 - Springer
The unsaturated zone, located between the soil surface and the phreatic level, plays an
important role in defining the fate of any substance entering the subsoil. In addition to the …

Effects of incomplete mixing on reactive transport in flows through heterogeneous porous media

EE Wright, DH Richter, D Bolster - Physical Review Fluids, 2017 - APS
The phenomenon of incomplete mixing reduces bulk effective reaction rates in reactive
transport. Many existing models do not account for these effects, resulting in the …

Upscaling of dilution and mixing using a trajectory based spatial Markov random walk model in a periodic flow domain

NL Sund, GM Porta, D Bolster - Advances in water resources, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Spatial Markov Model (SMM) is an upscaled model that has been used
successfully to predict effective mean transport across a broad range of hydrologic settings …

Accelerating and parallelizing Lagrangian simulations of mixing‐limited reactive transport

NB Engdahl, MJ Schmidt… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in random walk particle tracking have enabled direct simulation of mixing
and reactions by allowing the particles to interact with each other using a multipoint mass …

Shear flows accelerate mixing dynamics in hyporheic zones and hillslopes

A Bandopadhyay, P Davy… - Geophysical Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Topographic relief and river bedforms generate nested streamline patterns, which drive the
propagation and mixing at depth of changes in surface water concentration or temperature …