Magnetic resonance imaging measurements evidence weak dispersion in homogeneous porous media.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
We measure the dispersion coefficient through homogeneous bead or sand packings at different flow rates from direct magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) visualizations of the transport characteristics of a pulse of paramagnetic nanoparticles. Through two-dimensional imaging we observe homogeneous dispersion inside the sample, but we show that entrance effects may induce significant radial heterogeneities, which would affect the interpretation of the breakthrough curve. Another MRI approach then provides quantitative measurements of the evolution in time of the longitudinal particle distribution in the sample. These data can be analyzed to deduce the coefficient of dispersion independently of entrance effects. The values obtained for this "effective" dispersion coefficient are almost ten times lower than the commonly accepted values.