Wormhole formation in dissolving fractures
By Piotr Szymczak, Anthony J. C. Ladd. 2009
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[1] We investigate the dissolution of artificial fractures with three-dimensional, pore-scale numerical simulations. The fluid velocity in the fracture space was determined from a lattice Boltzmann method, and a stochastic solver was used for the transport of dissolved species. Numerical simulations were used to study conditions under which long conduits (wormholes) form in an initially rough but spatially homogeneous fracture. The effects of flow rate, mineral dissolution rate, and geometrical properties of the fracture were investigated, and the optimal conditions for wormhole formation were determined.
Subfields: Computational Mechanics, Environmental Engineering, Ocean Engineering
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- Mineral dissolution and wormholing from a pore-scale perspective (2017, methodology): “Other works rely on the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for reactive mass transfer in porous media (Kang, Zhang & Chen 2003; Szymczak & Ladd 2004, 2009; Chen et al. 2014; Huber, Shafei & Parmigiani 2014; Kang et al. 2014) or pore network models (PNM) (Algive, Bekri & Vizika 2010; Kim, Peters &…”
- Dynamic Pore‐Scale Dissolution by CO2‐Saturated Brine in Carbonates: Impact of Homogeneous Versus Fractured Versus Vuggy Pore Structure (2020, background): “Several studies have investigated dissolution in fractured carbonates (Andreani et al., 2008; Gouze et al., 2003; Szymczak & Ladd, 2009) and flow behavior in vuggy rocks (Arbogast et al., 2004; Kamath et al., 1998; Moctezuma‐Berthier & Fleury, 2000; Zhang et al., 2005).”