TY - JOUR
T1 - Simulation of Front Instabilities in Density-Driven Flow, Using a Reactive Transport Model for Biogrout Combined with a Randomly Distributed Permeability Field
AU - van Wijngaarden, W. K.
AU - van Paassen, L. A.
AU - Vermolen, F. J.
AU - van Meurs, G. A.M.
AU - Vuik, C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, The Author(s).
PY - 2016/3/1
Y1 - 2016/3/1
N2 - Biogrout is a method to strengthen granular soil, which is based on microbial-induced carbonate precipitation. To model the Biogrout process, a reactive transport model is used. Since high flow rates are undesirable for the Biogrout process, the model equations can be solved with a standard Galerkin finite element method. The Biogrout process involves the injection of dense fluids in the subsurface. In this paper, we present our reactive transport model for Biogrout and use it to simulate an experiment in which a pulse of a dense fluid is injected in a porous medium filled with water. In this experiment, front instabilities were observed in the form of fingers. The numerical simulations showed that the fingering phenomenon was less pronounced than in the experiment. By reducing the dispersion length and implementing a randomly distributed permeability field, the fingering phenomenon could be induced. Furthermore, the results of a case study to a Biogrout application are reported.
AB - Biogrout is a method to strengthen granular soil, which is based on microbial-induced carbonate precipitation. To model the Biogrout process, a reactive transport model is used. Since high flow rates are undesirable for the Biogrout process, the model equations can be solved with a standard Galerkin finite element method. The Biogrout process involves the injection of dense fluids in the subsurface. In this paper, we present our reactive transport model for Biogrout and use it to simulate an experiment in which a pulse of a dense fluid is injected in a porous medium filled with water. In this experiment, front instabilities were observed in the form of fingers. The numerical simulations showed that the fingering phenomenon was less pronounced than in the experiment. By reducing the dispersion length and implementing a randomly distributed permeability field, the fingering phenomenon could be induced. Furthermore, the results of a case study to a Biogrout application are reported.
KW - Biogrout
KW - Fingering
KW - Microbial-induced carbonate precipitation (MICP)
KW - Numerical simulation
KW - Randomly distributed permeability field
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U2 - 10.1007/s11242-016-0649-3
DO - 10.1007/s11242-016-0649-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84961209886
SN - 0169-3913
VL - 112
SP - 333
EP - 359
JO - Transport in Porous Media
JF - Transport in Porous Media
IS - 2
ER -