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Harnessing elastic instabilities for enhanced mixing and reaction kinetics in porous media
Christopher A. Browne, Sujit S. Datta
Turbulent flows have been used for millennia to mix solutes; a familiar example is stirring cream into coffee. However, many energy, environmental, and industrial processes rely on…
Fluid drainage in erodible porous media
Joanna Schneider, Christopher A. Browne, Malcolm Slutzky +3
Drainage, in which a nonwetting fluid displaces a wetting fluid from a porous medium, is well-studied for media with unchanging solid surfaces. However, many media can be eroded by…
Elastic turbulence homogenizes fluid transport in stratified porous media
Christopher A. Browne, Richard B. Huang, Callie W. Zheng +1
Many key environmental, industrial, and energy processes rely on controlling fluid transport within subsurface porous media. These media are typically structurally heterogeneous, o…
Elastic turbulence generates anomalous flow resistance in porous media
Christopher A. Browne, Sujit S. Datta
Diverse processes rely on the viscous flow of polymer solutions through porous media. In many cases, the macroscopic flow resistance abruptly increases above a threshold flow rate…
Forced Imbibition in Stratified Porous Media
Nancy B. Lu, Amir A. Pahlavan, Christopher A. Browne +3
Imbibition plays a central role in diverse energy, environmental, and industrial processes. In many cases, the medium has multiple parallel strata of different permeabilities; howe…