Overview
Contact: Tom Bultreys
- Contaminants in groundwater reservoirs are often dissolved in water that flows through the porous sediment or rock layers
Dynamic visualization and quantification of solute transport at pore scale
- Transport processes like advection, diffusion and mechanical dispersion influence the concentration distribution of these contaminants.
- Laboratory-based micro-computed tomography allows for direct observations of transient pore-scale solute transport.
FIGURE: Tracer dispersion experiment at the pore scale.
See also: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00803-3