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Transport in fractal media: an effective scale-invariant approach
H Hernandez-Coronado1, M Coronado, E C Herrera-Hernandez
1Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo, Eje central Lázaro Cárdenas 152, 07730, México D.F., Mexico.
Abstract:
In this paper an advective-dispersion equation with scale-dependent coefficients is proposed for describing transport through fractals. This equation is obtained by imposing scale invariance and assuming that the porosity, the dispersion coefficient, and the velocity follow fractional power laws on the scale. The model incorporates the empirically found trends in highly heterogeneous media, regarding the dependence of the dispersivity on the scale and the dispersion coefficient on the velocity. We conclude that the presence of nontrivial fractal parameters produces anomalous dispersion, as expected, and that the presence of convective processes induces a reescalation in the concentration and shifts the tracer velocity to different values with respect to the nonfractal case.
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