TY - JOUR
T1 - Stochastic langevin model for flow and transport in porous media
AU - Tartakovsky, Alexandre M.
AU - Tartakovsky, Daniel M.
AU - Meakin, Paul
PY - 2008/7/22
Y1 - 2008/7/22
N2 - We present a new model for fluid flow and solute transport in porous media, which employs smoothed particle hydrodynamics to solve a Langevin equation for flow and dispersion in porous media. This allows for effective separation of the advective and diffusive mixing mechanisms, which is absent in the classical dispersion theory that lumps both types of mixing into dispersion coefficient. The classical dispersion theory overestimates both mixing-induced effective reaction rates and the effective fractal dimension of the mixing fronts associated with miscible fluid Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities. We demonstrate that the stochastic (Langevin equation) model overcomes these deficiencies.
AB - We present a new model for fluid flow and solute transport in porous media, which employs smoothed particle hydrodynamics to solve a Langevin equation for flow and dispersion in porous media. This allows for effective separation of the advective and diffusive mixing mechanisms, which is absent in the classical dispersion theory that lumps both types of mixing into dispersion coefficient. The classical dispersion theory overestimates both mixing-induced effective reaction rates and the effective fractal dimension of the mixing fronts associated with miscible fluid Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities. We demonstrate that the stochastic (Langevin equation) model overcomes these deficiencies.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.044502
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.044502
M3 - Article
C2 - 18764333
AN - SCOPUS:47949119506
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 101
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 4
M1 - 044502
ER -