Dissolution and Deposition in Porous Media
Abstract
We develop a lattice-Boltzmann model for simulating fluid flow and dissolution and deposition in the reactive solid phase in a porous medium. Both convection and diffusion as well as temporal geometrical changes in the pore space are taken into account. The numerical results show that at high Peclet and Peclet-Damkohler numbers, a wormhole is formed and permeability increases greatly due to the dissolution process. At low Peclet and high Peclet-Damkohler numbers, reactions mainly occur at the inlet boundary, resulting in the face dissolution and the slowest increase of the permeability in the dissolution process. At moderate Peclet and Peclet-Damkohler numbers, reactions are generally nonuniform, with more in the upstream and less in the downstream. At very small Peclet-Damkohler number, dissolution or precipitation is highly uniform, and these two processes can be approximately reversed by each other.
- Publication:
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APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- November 2003
- Bibcode:
- 2003APS..DFD.KQ006Z