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D. Roubinet and D. M. Tartakovsky, "Hybrid modeling of heterogeneous geochemical reactions in fractured porous media", Water Resour. Res., vol. 49, no. 12, doi:10.1002/2013WR013999, pp. 7945-7956, 2013

Abstract

Quantitative modeling of geochemical reactions at the Darcy scale is challenging due to their dependence on pore-scale characteristics that often cannot be averaged out. We propose a hybrid pore-scale/continuum-scale algorithm to bridge the gap between the pore-scale mechanisms of reactive transport and the Darcy-scale observations of their impact. These two scales are coupled by introducing extra nodes at the pore/continuum interfaces, in which the continuity of both concentrations and mass fluxes is enforced. Our algorithm is applicable to highly localized transport phenomena that can be adequately described by Darcy-scale equations in most of a computational domain except for small regions (e.g., reaction fronts) wherein pore-scale simulations are necessary. We employ the proposed hybrid algorithm to model transient reactive solute transport involving fracture cementation.

BibTeX Entry

@article{roubinet-2013-hybrid,
author = {D. Roubinet and D. M. Tartakovsky},
title = {Hybrid modeling of heterogeneous geochemical reactions in fractured porous media},
year = {2013},
urlpdf = {http://maeresearch.ucsd.edu/Tartakovsky/Papers/roubinet-2013-hybrid.pdf},
journal = {Water Resour. Res.},
volume = {49},
number = {12},
doi = {10.1002/2013WR013999},
pages = {7945-7956}
}