Numerical Investigation of Preferential Flow Paths in Enzymatically Induced Calcite Precipitation supported by Bayesian Model Analysis

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Autores principales: Kohlhaas, Rebecca, Hommel, Johannes, Weinhardt, Felix, Class, Holger, Oladyshkin, Sergey, Flemisch, Bernd
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author Kohlhaas, Rebecca
Hommel, Johannes
Weinhardt, Felix
Class, Holger
Oladyshkin, Sergey
Flemisch, Bernd
author_facet Kohlhaas, Rebecca
Hommel, Johannes
Weinhardt, Felix
Class, Holger
Oladyshkin, Sergey
Flemisch, Bernd
contents The usability of enzymatically induced calcium carbonate precipitation (EICP) as a method for altering porous-media properties, soil stabilization, or biocementation depends on our ability to predict the spatial distribution of the precipitated calcium carbonate in porous media. While current REV-scale models are able to reproduce the main features of laboratory experiments, they neglect effects like the formation of preferential flow paths and the appearance of multiple polymorphs of calcium carbonate with differing properties. We show that extending an existing EICP model by the conceptual assumption of a mobile precipitate, amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC), allows for the formation of preferential flow paths when the initial porosity is heterogeneous. We apply sensitivity analysis and Bayesian inference to gain an understanding of the influence of characteristic parameters of ACC that are uncertain or unknown and compare two variations of the model based on different formulations of the ACC detachment term to analyse the plausibility of our hypothesis. An arbitrary Polynomial Chaos (aPC) surrogate model is trained based on the full model and used to reduce the computational cost of this study.
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spellingShingle Numerical Investigation of Preferential Flow Paths in Enzymatically Induced Calcite Precipitation supported by Bayesian Model Analysis
Kohlhaas, Rebecca
Hommel, Johannes
Weinhardt, Felix
Class, Holger
Oladyshkin, Sergey
Flemisch, Bernd
Computational Physics
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
The usability of enzymatically induced calcium carbonate precipitation (EICP) as a method for altering porous-media properties, soil stabilization, or biocementation depends on our ability to predict the spatial distribution of the precipitated calcium carbonate in porous media. While current REV-scale models are able to reproduce the main features of laboratory experiments, they neglect effects like the formation of preferential flow paths and the appearance of multiple polymorphs of calcium carbonate with differing properties. We show that extending an existing EICP model by the conceptual assumption of a mobile precipitate, amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC), allows for the formation of preferential flow paths when the initial porosity is heterogeneous. We apply sensitivity analysis and Bayesian inference to gain an understanding of the influence of characteristic parameters of ACC that are uncertain or unknown and compare two variations of the model based on different formulations of the ACC detachment term to analyse the plausibility of our hypothesis. An arbitrary Polynomial Chaos (aPC) surrogate model is trained based on the full model and used to reduce the computational cost of this study.
title Numerical Investigation of Preferential Flow Paths in Enzymatically Induced Calcite Precipitation supported by Bayesian Model Analysis
topic Computational Physics
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17314