Reactive Transport Modeling with a Coupled OpenFOAM®-PHREEQC Platform

Reactive transport modeling has established itself as a key player to analyze sophisticated hydro-geochemical interactions that occur over spatiotemporal scales on par with subsurface applications. In this paper, we benchmarked new reactive package—porousMedia4Foam at the continuum scale considering complex and well-established cases available in community. porousMedia4Foam was born by successful coupling of two open-source packages—OpenFOAM® PHREEQC. The flow governing equations, species evolution porous media properties are handled OpenFOAM®, whereas geochemistry is exclusively We further demonstrated capability using investigate processes unstructured meshes. As an package included benefits account for occurring various scales—pore, hybrid, Darcy scales, believe opens dimension physics intriguing