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Challenging reactive transport modeling from pore scale observations
Flow and transport are important in hydrology and many geo-engineering applications such as carbon dioxide storage, geothermal energy or in situ recovery. Developing a full understanding of the feedbacks between geochemical reactions and flow and transport at the reservoir scale requires investigations of geochemical mechanisms at the microscopic scale
What Will You Learn?
New information is now accessible, which provides a better understanding of the coupled thermo-hydro-mechano chemical processes the pore scale [2,3] and allows numerical models to be better constrained. In my presentation, I will present some applications of 4D imaging related to reactive transport experiments and discuss the results and issues for reactive transport modelling. In particular, I would point out several processes that challenge the continuum description of porous media and assumptions required for reactive transport modelling at large scales [3].
