On breakdown of macroscopic models of mixing-controlled heterogeneous reactions in porous media
On breakdown of macroscopic models of mixing-controlled heterogeneous reactions in porous media
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DOI:
10.1016/j.advwatres.2009.08.008
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发表时间:
2009-11-01
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4.7
通讯作者:
Scheibe, T.
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作者:
Battiato, I.;Tartakovsky, D. M.;Scheibe, T.
Reactive transport in porous media is a complex nonlinear phenomenon that involves both homogeneous (bio-)chemical reactions between species dissolved in a fluid and heterogeneous reactions occurring on liquid-solid interfaces. We establish sufficient conditions under which macroscopic reaction-diffusion equations (RDEs) provide an adequate averaged description of pore-scale processes. These conditions are represented by a phase diagram in a two-dimensional space, which is spanned by Damkohler number and a scale-separation parameter. This phase diagram shows that highly localized phenomena in porous media, including precipitation on (and/or dissolution of) a porous matrix, do not lend themselves to macroscopic (upscaled) descriptions. To compute the predictive errors resulting from the use of macroscopic RDEs, we upscaled the pore-scale RDEs to the continuum (macroscopic) scale and used pore-scale numerical simulations to verify various upscaling assumptions. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.