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 …

Dissolution trap** of carbon dioxide in heterogeneous aquifers

MR Soltanian, MA Amooie, N Gershenzon… - Environmental …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The geologic architecture in sedimentary reservoirs affects the behavior of density-driven
flow and the dispersion of CO2-rich brine. The spatial organization and connectivity of facies …

Direct numerical simulation of convective heat transfer in porous media

X Chu, G Yang, S Pandey, B Weigand - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2019 - Elsevier
Convective heat transfer in turbulent flow in porous media is, in general, less understood
compared to laminar and cree** flows. It is broadly integrated into industrial applications …

convective dissolution in a three-dimensional granular porous medium: An experimental study

C Brouzet, Y Méheust, P Meunier - Physical Review Fluids, 2022 - APS
Geological storage of CO 2 in deep saline aquifers is a promising measure to mitigate global
warming by reducing the concentration of this greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. When CO …

Solutal convection in porous media: Comparison between boundary conditions of constant concentration and constant flux

MA Amooie, MR Soltanian, J Moortgat - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
We numerically examine solutal convection in porous media, driven by the dissolution of
carbon dioxide (CO 2) into water—an effective mechanism for CO 2 storage in saline …

Flow turbulence topology in regular porous media: from macroscopic to microscopic scale with direct numerical simulation

X Chu, B Weigand, V Vaikuntanathan - Physics of Fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Microscopic analysis of turbulence topology in a regular porous medium is presented with a
series of direct numerical simulation. The regular porous media are comprised of square …

[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 …

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 …