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Transport of kinetically sorbing solute by steady random velocity in heterogeneous porous formations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Vladimir Cvetkovic  and
Gedeon Dagan
Vladimir Cvetkovic
Affiliation:
Department of Water Resources Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, S-10044 Stockholm, Sweden
Gedeon Dagan
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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Abstract

A Lagrangian framework is used for analysing reactive solute transport by a steady random velocity field, which is associated with flow through a heterogeneous porous formation. The reaction considered is kinetically controlled sorption–desorption. Transport is quantified by the expected values of spatial and temporal moments that are derived as functions of the non-reactive moments and a distribution function which characterizes sorption kinetics. Thus the results of this study generalize the previously obtained results for transport of non-reactive solutes in heterogeneous formations (Dagan 1984; Dagan et al. 1992). The results are illustrated for first-order linear sorption reactions. The general effect of sorption is to retard the solute movement. For short time, the transport process coincides with a non-reactive case, whereas for large time sorption is in equilibrium and solute is simply retarded by a factor R = 1+Kd, where Kd is the partitioning coefficient. Within these limits, the interaction between the heterogeniety and kinetics yields characteristic nonlinearities in the first three spatial moments. Asymmetry in the spatial solute distribution is a typical kinetic effect. Critical parameters that control sorptive transport asymptotically are the ratio εr between a typical reaction length and the longitudinal effective (non-reactive) dispersivity, and Kd. The asymptotic effective dispersivity for equilibrium conditions is derived as a function of parameters εr and Kd. A qualitative agreement with field data is illustrated for the zero- and first-order spatial moments.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 265 , 25 April 1994 , pp. 189 - 215
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© 1994 Cambridge University Press

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