Predicting anomalous diffusion rates of Stokes flow in porous media

ORAL

Abstract

Stokes flow in porous media finds many applications in hydrology, filtration, and groundwater flow. I will first describe an experimental setup that simulates two-dimensional Stokes flow in a porous media, and compare experimental and numerical results. Then, I will describe a technique where statistics of the geometry are used to predict statistics of the flow, including anomalous diffusion rates. This technique will be tested on several geometries.

Authors

  • Bryan Quaife

    Florida State University, Univ of Texas, Austin

  • Pietro deAnna

    Universite de Lausanne, MIT, Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT

  • George Biros

    University of Texas, Univ of Texas, Austin

  • Ruben Juanes

    Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT, MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology