Chemo-hydrodynamic patterns and instabilities

A De Wit - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
By modifying a physical property of a solution like its density or viscosity, chemical reactions
can modify and even trigger convective flows. These flows in turn affect the spatiotemporal …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial programming of self-organizing chemical systems using sustained physicochemical gradients from reaction, diffusion and hydrodynamics

ADC Nguindjel, PJ de Visser, M Winkens… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Living organisms employ chemical self-organization to build structures, and inspire new
strategies to design synthetic systems that spontaneously take a particular form, via a …

[HTML][HTML] Patterns and flow in frictional fluid dynamics

B Sandnes, EG Flekkøy, HA Knudsen, KJ Måløy… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Pattern-forming processes in simple fluids and suspensions have been studied extensively,
and the basic displacement structures, similar to viscous fingers and fractals in capillary …

Pore-scale mass and reactant transport in multiphase porous media flows

A Parmigiani, C Huber, O Bachmann… - Journal of Fluid …, 2011 - cambridge.org
Reactive processes associated with multiphase flows play a significant role in mass
transport in unsaturated porous media. For example, the effect of reactions on the solid …

Impact of viscous fingering and permeability heterogeneity on fluid mixing in porous media

C Nicolaides, B Jha… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Fluid mixing plays a fundamental role in many natural and engineered processes, including
groundwater flows in porous media, enhanced oil recovery, and microfluidic lab‐on‐a‐chip …

Influence of double diffusive effects on miscible viscous fingering

M Mishra, PMJ Trevelyan, C Almarcha, A De Wit - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
Miscible viscous fingering classically occurs when a less viscous fluid displaces a miscible
more viscous one in a porous medium. We analyze here how double diffusive effects …

Viscous fingering of a miscible reactive A+ B→ C interface: a linear stability analysis

SH Hejazi, PMJ Trevelyan, J Azaiez… - Journal of Fluid …, 2010 - cambridge.org
When one solution of reactant A is displacing another miscible solution of reactant B, a
miscible product C can be generated in the contact zone if a simple A+ B→ C chemical …

Experimental study on the role of polymer addition in Saffman–Taylor instability in miscible flow displacement

P Jangir, R Mohan, P Chokshi - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The role of nonlinear rheology of polymeric fluids in finger formation and the ensuing
morphology of the patterns in miscible flow displacement is examined experimentally. The …

Quantifying mixing in viscously unstable porous media flows

B Jha, L Cueto-Felgueroso, R Juanes - Physical Review E—Statistical …, 2011 - APS
Viscous fingering is a well-known hydrodynamic instability that sets in when a less viscous
fluid displaces a more viscous fluid. When the two fluids are miscible, viscous fingering …

Chemo-hydrodynamic patterns in porous media

A De Wit - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Chemical reactions can interplay with hydrodynamic flows to generate chemo-hydrodynamic
instabilities affecting the spatio-temporal evolution of the concentration of the chemicals. We …