期刊
JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
卷 673, 期 -, 页码 286-317出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010006269
关键词
convection in porous media; geophysical and geological flows
资金
- Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
We describe a mathematical model of buoyancy-driven flow and solute transport in a saturated porous medium, the porosity and permeability of which evolve through precipitation and dissolution as a mineral is lost or gained from the pore fluid. Imposing a vertically varying equilibrium solubility creates a density gradient which can drive convective circulation. We characterise the onset of convection using linear stability analysis, and explore the further development of the coupled reaction-convection system numerically. At low Rayleigh numbers, the effect of the reaction-permeability feedback is shown to be destabilising through a novel reaction-diffusion mechanism; at higher Rayleigh numbers, the precipitation and dissolution have a stabilising effect. Over longer time scales, reaction-permeability feedback triggers secondary instabilities in quasi-steady convective circulation, leading to rapid reversals in the direction of circulation. Over very long time scales, characteristic patterns of porosity emerge, including horizontal layering as well as the development of vertical chimneys of enhanced porosity. We discuss the implications of these findings for more comprehensive models of reactive convection in porous media.
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