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Lattice Boltzmann methods (LBM) offer an exceptionally powerful tool for the computation of advective and diffusive transport in complex porous media. Mass and energy transport can be simulated. Unlike traditional models that rely on space-averaged properties that lose meaning at the pore scale (such as porosity, hydraulic conductivity, and dispersivity), LBM can compute detailed solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid flow and solute diffusion considering the intricacies of porous medium geometry. Dispersion is an outcome of solute advection and diffusion in this detailed flow field and is not bound to any particular macroscopic transport model or conceptualization.
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(2007). Solute Transport. In: Lattice Boltzmann Modeling. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27982-2_8
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