URI | http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/A7D9F28D-166D-4430-935C-5C2786FC365E | - |
Αναγνωριστικό | https://doi.org/10.1029/2000WR900048 | - |
Γλώσσα | en | - |
Μέγεθος | 10 pages | en |
Τίτλος | Transport of polydisperse colloids in a saturated fracture with spatially variable aperture | en |
Δημιουργός | Chrysikopoulos Constantinos | en |
Δημιουργός | Χρυσικοπουλος Κωνσταντινος | el |
Δημιουργός | Scott C. James | en |
Περίληψη | A particle tracking model is developed to simulate the transport of variably
sized colloids in a fracture with a spatially variable aperture. The aperture of the fracture
is treated as a lognormally distributed random variable. The spatial fluctuations of the
aperture are described by an exponential autocovariance function. It is assumed that
colloids can sorb onto the fracture walls but may not penetrate the rock matrix. Particle
advection is governed by the local fracture velocity and diffusion by the Stokes-Einstein
equation. Model simulations for various realizations of aperture fluctuations indicate that
lognormal colloid size distributions exhibit greater spreading than monodisperse
suspensions. Both sorption and spreading of the polydisperse colloids increase with
increasing variance in the particle diameter. It is shown that the largest particles are
preferentially transported through the fracture leading to early breakthrough while the
smallest particles are preferentially sorbed. Increasing the variance of the aperture
fluctuations leads to increased tailing for both monodisperse and variably sized colloid
suspensions, while increasing the correlation length of the aperture fluctuations leads to
increased spreading. | en |
Τύπος | Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication | en |
Τύπος | Δημοσίευση σε Περιοδικό με Κριτές | el |
Άδεια Χρήσης | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
Ημερομηνία | 2015-09-19 | - |
Ημερομηνία Δημοσίευσης | 2000 | - |
Θεματική Κατηγορία | Algorithm Development | en |
Θεματική Κατηγορία | Fracture Generation | en |
Βιβλιογραφική Αναφορά | S. C. James , C. V. Chrysikopoulos ,"Transport of polydisperse colloids in a saturated fracture with spatially variable aperture ",Wat.Resou.Res., vol. 36, no. 6, pp 1457–1465, Jun. 2000.doi :10.1029/2000WR900048 | en |