ROCKNMIX : TRACKING THE EXISTENCE OF CHAOTIC MIXING IN POROUS ROCKS

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Fluid flow in porous media plays a central role in environmental and industrial systems, with important consequences for reactive transport processes. We have recently shown that steady laminar flows through transparent bead packs produce chaotic microscale trajectories, like turbulent flows but at low Reynolds numbers. This fundamentally changes the current paradigm of reactive transport modeling as chaos enhances microscale chemical gradients and controls mixing rates. Yet, proving the existence of chaotic mixing in rocks, key for reservoir and storage applications, is an outstanding challenge. This proposal seeks beamtime to conduct the first experiments to evidence chaotic mixing in rocks, for which ESRF-ID19 is the only beamline allowing the required acquisition of fast, highly- resolved, and low-noise microscale solute gradient images. This new dataset will be transformative in the current understanding of a broad range of reactive transport processes.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.15151/ESRF-ES-1710756361
Metadata Access https://icatplus.esrf.fr/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatplus.esrf.fr:inv/1710756361
Provenance
Creator Sam KREVOR ORCID logo; Tanguy LE BORGNE ORCID logo; Mohamed SALEH; Marc LAMBLIN; Joris HEYMAN ORCID logo; Atefeh VAFAIE ORCID logo; Benoît CORDONNIER ORCID logo; Isabelle BIHANNIC ORCID logo; Nihal DARRAJ; Iman RAHIMZADEH KIVI ORCID logo; Sojwal MANOORKAR; Ludovic BROCHE; Maxime GROSLEGIAT
Publisher ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)
Publication Year 2027
Rights CC-BY-4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Data from large facility measurement; Collection
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields