Investigating solute transport and reaction using a mechanistically coupled geochemical and geophysical modeling approach
Résumé
The use of geoelectrical monitoring of groundwater quality and contamination
is a growing and promising topic. Nowadays, geoelectrical methods are
mostly used as qualitative detection tools. This study aims to better use
geoelectrical signals as a complementary tool for the quantitative characterization
of chemical species transport and reaction in the porous matrix
by developing a coupled mechanistic model. We examine the dissolution
of calcite as an effective proof-of-concept. Our investigation focuses on the
impact of the reactive zone’s position, extent, and intensity of geoelectrical
signals under various inlet conditions. We conducted five experiments on
flow-through columns equipped with geoelectrical monitoring. This study
presents a unique dataset that is analyzed using a workflow that combines
reactive transport numerical simulation with numerical modeling of geoelectrical
and structural properties. The comparison of the predicted signals
with the experimental data clearly shows the characterization of the spatial and temporal distributions of the reaction rates.
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