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 …

Scalings of Rayleigh-Taylor instability at large viscosity contrasts in porous media

N Sabet, H Hassanzadeh, A De Wit, J Abedi - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
The scalings of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability are studied numerically for porous media
flows when the denser fluid lying on top of the less dense one is also much more viscous …

Multi-layer Rayleigh–Taylor instability: Consequences for naturally occurring stratified mixing layers

A Sengupta, HN Ulloa, B Joshi - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The present study investigates the behavior of multi-layer Rayleigh–Taylor instability (RTI)
and enstrophy transport in the flow using a three-dimensional computational framework. The …

Experimental study on the density-driven carbon dioxide convective diffusion in formation water at reservoir conditions

Y Tang, Z Li, R Wang, M Cui, X Wang, Z Lun, Y Lu - ACS omega, 2019 - ACS Publications
Density-driven convection, which can accelerate the dissolution rate of carbon dioxide
(CO2) in resident brine, is critical for the long-term fate of the injected CO2 permanence and …

Three-dimensional visualization of Rayleigh–Bénard convection in porous media

S Sin, S Imai, MA Mahardika, A Patmonoaji… - Advances in Water …, 2024 - Elsevier
Investigating Rayleigh–Bénard convection, its onset, and its effect on mass transfer are
crucial for understanding the effective dissolution processes between carbon-dioxide (CO 2) …

[PDF][PDF] Convective dissolution in confined porous media

M De Paoli, CJ Howland, R Verzicco… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - researchgate.net
We consider the process of convective dissolution in a homogeneous and isotropic porous
medium. The flow is unstable due to the presence of a solute that induces a density …

Instability problems and density-driven convection in saturated porous media linking to hydrogeology: A review

E Soboleva - Fluids, 2023 - mdpi.com
Investigations of fluid instability and density-driven convection in soils and rocks are
motivated by both natural phenomena giving rise to ecological problems, and human …

Experimental assessment of mixing layer scaling laws in Rayleigh-Taylor instability

M De Paoli, D Perissutti, C Marchioli, A Soldati - Physical Review Fluids, 2022 - APS
We assess experimentally the scaling laws that characterize the mixing region produced by
the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a confined porous medium. In particular, we wish to assess …

Experiments and reduced order modeling of symmetry breaking in Rayleigh-Taylor mixing

M Mohammadi, M Khalifi, N Sabet, H Hassanzadeh - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
We report experiments of fingering asymmetry in Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) mixing at an
extremely large viscosity ratio (M≈ 5× 10 5) and Rayleigh numbers [Ra∼ 10 5–(3× 10 6)] …