Reactive-infiltration instabilities in rocks. Fracture dissolution

DOI10.1017/JFM.2012.174zbMATH Open1248.76069arXiv1204.0917OpenAlexW2122927049WikidataQ58879018 ScholiaQ58879018MaRDI QIDQ2907186FDOQ2907186

Piotr Szymczak, Anthony J. C. Ladd

Publication date: 7 September 2012

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A reactive fluid dissolving the surface of a uniform fracture will trigger an instability in the dissolution front, leading to spontaneous formation of pronounced well-spaced channels in the surrounding rock matrix. Although the underlying mechanism is similar to the wormhole instability in porous rocks there are significant differences in the physics, due to the absence of a steadily propagating reaction front. In previous work we have described the geophysical implications of this instability in regard to the formation of long conduits in soluble rocks. Here we describe a more general linear stability analysis, including axial diffusion, transport limited dissolution, non-linear kinetics, and a finite length system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0917

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zbMATH Keywords

porous mediafingering instabilitygeophysical and geological flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17) Reaction effects in flows (76V05)

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• Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

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