Mixing in porous media: concepts and approaches across scales

M Dentz, JJ Hidalgo, D Lester - Transport in porous media, 2023 - Springer
This review provides an overview of concepts and approaches for the quantification of
passive, non-reactive solute mixing in steady uniform porous media flows across scales …

Frontiers of chaotic advection

H Aref, JR Blake, M Budišić, SSS Cardoso… - Reviews of Modern …, 2017 - APS
This work reviews the present position of and surveys future perspectives in the physics of
chaotic advection: the field that emerged three decades ago at the intersection of fluid …

Mechanisms of dispersion in a porous medium

M Dentz, M Icardi, JJ Hidalgo - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
This paper studies the mechanisms of dispersion in the laminar flow through the pore space
of a three-dimensional porous medium. We focus on preasymptotic transport prior to the …

Stochastic dynamics of intermittent pore‐scale particle motion in three‐dimensional porous media: Experiments and theory

VL Morales, M Dentz, M Willmann… - Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We study the evolution of velocity in time, which fundamentally controls the way dissolved
substances are transported and spread in porous media. Experiments are conducted that …

Chaotic Transport of Solutes in Unsaturated Porous Media

A Velásquez-Parra, F Marone, M Griffa… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Unsaturated porous media, characterized by the combined presence of several immiscible
fluid phases in the pore space, are highly relevant systems in nature, because they control …

Improving the efficiency of in situ uranium leaching (remediation) with periodic injection and extraction: Insight from reactive transport modeling and field test

M Chen, Z Jiang, G Feng, M Chen, Z Du - Journal of Hydrology, 2024 - Elsevier
In situ leaching (and remediation) techniques are widely used to recover the economic
minerals and remove toxic contaminants by injecting reactive agents into aquifers. However …

Chaotic mixing in three-dimensional porous media

DR Lester, M Dentz, T Le Borgne - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016 - cambridge.org
Under steady flow conditions, the topological complexity inherent to all random three-
dimensional (3D) porous media imparts complicated flow and transport dynamics. It has …

A primer on the dynamical systems approach to transport in porous media

G Metcalfe, D Lester, M Trefry - Transport in Porous Media, 2023 - Springer
Historically, the dominant conceptual paradigm of porous media flow, solute mixing and
transport was based on steady two-dimensional flows in heterogeneous porous media …

Recirculation zones induce non-Fickian transport in three-dimensional periodic porous media

E Crevacore, T Tosco, R Sethi, G Boccardo… - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
In this work, the influence of pore space geometry on solute transport in porous media is
investigated performing computational fluid dynamics pore-scale simulations of fluid flow …

Chaotic mixing in crystalline granular media

R Turuban, DR Lester, J Heyman… - Journal of Fluid …, 2019 - cambridge.org
We study the Lagrangian kinematics of steady three-dimensional Stokes flow over simple
cubic (SC) and body-centred cubic (BCC) lattices of close-packed spheres, and uncover the …