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Numerical Simulations of Heterogeneous Chemical Reactions Coupled to Fluid Flow in Varying Thermal Fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

C. L. Carnahan*
Affiliation:
Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, uUniversity of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Abstract

A numerical simulator of reactive chemical transport with coupling from precipitation-dissolution reactions to fluid flow, via changes of porosity and permeability, is applied to precipitation-dissolution of quartz and calcite in spatially and temporally variable fields of temperature. Significant effects on fluid flow are found in the quartz-silicic acid system in the presence of a persistent, strong gradient of temperature. Transient heat flow in the quartz-silicic acid system and in a calcite-calcium ion-carbonato species system produces vanishingly small effects on fluid flow.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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