Effects of Mineral Dissolution Ratios on Chemical-Dissolution Front Instability in Fluid-Saturated Porous Media
Effects of Mineral Dissolution Ratios on Chemical-Dissolution Front Instability in Fluid-Saturated Porous Media
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DOI:
10.1007/s11242-009-9427-9
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发表时间:
2010-05
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
Chong-bin Zhao;B. Hobbs;A. Ord;S. Peng
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作者:
Chong-bin Zhao;B. Hobbs;A. Ord;S. Peng
The main purpose of this article is to investigate, both theoretically and computationally, the effects of mineral dissolution ratios on the different respects of chemical-dissolution front instability problems in fluid-saturated porous media. In order to get a better understanding of how the mineral dissolution ratio affects the propagation and evolution of a planar chemical-dissolution front in an infinite space consisting of a fluid-saturated porous medium, the theoretical analysis method is used to derive the generous solution to the propagation speed of the planar chemical-dissolution front, while the computational simulation method is employed to simulate the detailed evolution process when the planar chemical-dissolution front is evolved into complicated morphologies at the supercriticalZhaonumbers. The related theoretical results reveal that the mineral dissolution ratio plays an important role in controlling the propagation speed of a planar chemical-dissolution front in the fluid-saturated porous medium. An increase in the value of the mineral dissolution ratio can result in a remarkable decrease in the value of the propagation speed of a planar chemical-dissolution front. On the other hand, the related computational simulation results demonstrate that the mineral dissolution ratio has a considerable influence on the evolution pattern of a planar chemical-dissolution front during its propagation in the fluid-saturated porous medium. An increase in the mineral dissolution ratio can reduce the likelihood for a planar chemical-dissolution front to evolve from the initial planar shape into different morphologies within the fluid-saturated porous medium of finite size.