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6 - Shear Flow Dispersion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2023

Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh
Affiliation:
University of Arizona
Yanhui Dong
Affiliation:
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Shujun Ye
Affiliation:
Nanjing University, China
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This chapter is the most crucial part of the book, the fundamental building block of the concept of dispersion in porous media and macrodispersion in the field-scale aquifers. It unravels the myth of macrodispersion, anomalous dispersion, scale-dependent dispersion, dual-domain, and other recently developed dispersion models for solute transport in aquifers (Chapters 9 and 10). This chapter first explains how the concept of dispersion evolves from molecular diffusion to account for the effects of fluid-dynamics-scale velocity variation in solute migration in a pipe. The relationship between dispersion and the concentration averaged over the cross-section of a pipe is visited. Further, this chapter illustrates the molecular and fluid-dynamics-scale velocity variations, the interaction between diffusion and dispersion, and scale issues associated with the shear flow dispersion. Finally, it discusses the limitations of extending Fick’s law for molecular-scale velocity variations to describe the effects of fluid-dynamics-scale velocity variations.

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  • Shear Flow Dispersion
  • Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh, University of Arizona, Yanhui Dong, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, Shujun Ye, Nanjing University, China
  • Book: An Introduction to Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Geologic Media
  • Online publication: 02 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009049511.007
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  • Shear Flow Dispersion
  • Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh, University of Arizona, Yanhui Dong, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, Shujun Ye, Nanjing University, China
  • Book: An Introduction to Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Geologic Media
  • Online publication: 02 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009049511.007
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  • Shear Flow Dispersion
  • Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh, University of Arizona, Yanhui Dong, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, Shujun Ye, Nanjing University, China
  • Book: An Introduction to Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Geologic Media
  • Online publication: 02 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009049511.007
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