The collection describes recent applications, techniques, and current requirements necessary to foster future advances in reactive transport modeling, reviewing the state of reactive transport simulation capability to address challenging new frontiers in fractured and nanoporous media, multiphase structures, and evolving physical structures. The 16 papers discuss novel and expanded reactive transport applications in stable isotope partitioning, microbial catalysis, vadose zone systems, and watersheds, and explore industrial applications of reactive transport modeling in the fields of waste repositories, carbon sequestration, and sub-surface resource recovery. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry (RiMG) volumes contain concise advances in theoretical and/or applied mineralogy, crystallography, petrology, and geochemistry.
Open system behavior is predicated on a fundamental relationship between the timescale over which mass is transported and the timescale over which it is chemically transformed. This relationship describes the basis for the multidisciplinary field of reactive transport (RT). In the 20 years since publication of Review in Mineralogy and Geochemistry volume 34: Reactive Transport in Porous Media, RT principles have expanded beyond early applications largely based in contaminant hydrology to become broadly utilized throughout the Earth Sciences. RT is now employed to address a wide variety of natural and engineered systems across diverse spatial and temporal scales, in tandem with advances in computational capability, quantitative imaging and reactive interface characterization techniques. The present volume reviews the diversity of reactive transport applications developed over the past 20 years, ranging from the understanding of basic processes at the nano- to micrometer scale to the prediction of Earth global cycling processes at the watershed scale. Key areas of RT development are highlighted to continue advancing our capabilities to predict mass and energy transfer in natural and engineered systems.
