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Structure induced laminar vortices control anomalous dispersion in porous media

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Abstract Natural porous systems, such as soil, membranes, and biological tissues comprise disordered structures characterized by dead-end pores connected to a network of percolating channels. The release and dispersion of particles, solutes, and microorganisms from such features is key for a broad range of environmental and medical applications including soil remediation, filtration and drug delivery. Yet, owing to the stagnant and opaque nature of these disordered systems, the role of microscopic structure and flow on the dispersion of particles and solutes remains poorly understood. Here, we use a microfluidic model system that features a pore structure characterized by distributed dead-ends to determine how particles are transported, retained and dispersed. We observe strong tailing of arrival time distributions at the outlet of the medium characterized by power-law decay with an exponent of 2/3. Using numerical simulations and an analytical model, we link this behavior to particles initially located within dead-end pores, and explain the tailing exponent with a hopping across and rolling along the streamlines of vortices within dead-end pores. We quantify such anomalous dispersal by a stochastic model that predicts the full evolution of arrival times. Our results demonstrate how microscopic flow structures can impact macroscopic particle transport.
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hal-03967303 , version 1 (01-02-2023)

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Ankur Deep Bordoloi, David Scheidweiler, Marco Dentz, Mohammed Bouabdellaoui, Marco Abbarchi, et al.. Structure induced laminar vortices control anomalous dispersion in porous media. Nature Communications, 2022, 13 (1), pp.3820. ⟨10.1038/s41467-022-31552-5⟩. ⟨hal-03967303⟩
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