Pore-scale simulation of dispersion

Tracer dispersion has been simulated in three-dimensional models of regular and random sphere packings for a range of Peclet numbers. A random-walk particle-tracking (PT) method was used to simulate tracer movement within pore-scale flow fields computed with the lattice-Boltzmann (LB) method. The simulation results illustrate the time evolution of dispersion, and they corroborate a number of theoretical and empirical results for the scaling of asymptotic longitudinal and transverse dispersion with Peclet number. Comparisons with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy experiments show agreement on transient, as well as asymptotic, dispersion rates. These results support both NMR findings that longitudinal dispersion rates are significantly lower than reported in earlier experimental literature, as well as the fact that asymptotic rates are observed in relatively short times by techniques that employ a uniform initial distribution of tracers, like NMR.

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