🧵 2/n #Transport and #dispersion of #contaminants in the subsurface are common to many geophysical and industrial applications, from the management of nuclear waste to the dispersion of chemicals and pollutants. Dispersion models to predict these scenarios exist, and are well developed.

🚨 PAPER ALERT 🚨 Can we predict the #dispersion of contaminants in #groundwater flows?

🧵 1/n Here marcodepaoli.com/2025/10/01/d... we provide an example.

Movie: Evolution of a Rayleigh-Taylor system in porous media with dispersion and buoyancy.

🚨 new paper alert 🚨
1/3 🌊 Measuring experimentally the dispersion of #microplastic #fibres in turbulent flows is incredibly challenging, due to their small size. However, experiments are key to develop reliable models to predict the fate of microplastics in #environmental #flows.

🚨 PAPER ALERT 🚨 Comput. Phys. Commun.
🧵1/6 We present the code AFiD-Darcy, designed for massively parallel numerical simulations of convective porous media flows. Thanks to Guru Sreevanshu Yerragolam, Detlef Lohse and Roberto Verzicco for the great collaboration at @poftwente.bsky.social

Here is where nuclear physics has begun, thanks to #EnricoFermi and the guys of Via Panisperna.

🌊 Are you working on the transport of #microplastics in #Environmental #Flows? Then consider submitting your work to the Topical Collection in The European Physical Journal on "Microplastics pollution in environmental flows", edited by G. Suaria, F. Croccolo and myself.
(details in the comments)

Are you interested in #pore-#scale flows or upscale models?

Then please consider submitting a contribution to the Minisymposium 9 (MS 09 events.interpore.org/event/56/pag...) at #InterPore 2025, in Albuquerque (19-22 May, 2025).

🧵1/3 The Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecturer of 2024, Prof. Ruben Juanes (@mitofficial.bsky.social), presented a great lecture on "Fluids, Fingers, Fractures and Fractals: Patterns in Porous Media" at the @poftwente.bsky.social (@utwente.bsky.social)

Getting ready for the #APSDFD2022 @APSMeetings
If you are attending in Indianapolis let's meet :) Stop by and check out our talks!

2/7
In this workpublished on @PhysRevFluids and partially funded by the Austrian Science Fund - @FWF_at, we investigate with the aid of #experiments the role of convection on solute transport in confined porous media.

journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstr…

Our work is on the back cover of @PhysicsToday
#BackScatter #PhysicsToday #TUWien #FluidMechanics

physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.10…

Here is the TU Wien Turbulent Water Channel, the facility we used for this investigation

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