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Overview

Marco Dentz is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science, with substantial contributions in Environmental Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Ocean Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

Their work spans a variety of main topics including groundwater flow and contamination studies, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, enhanced oil recovery techniques, soil and unsaturated flow, NMR spectroscopy and applications, geophysical and geoelectrical methods, and lattice Boltzmann simulation studies.

Marco Dentz has authored multiple research papers focusing on fluid dynamics and transport phenomena in porous media and fractured networks. Notable recent papers include:

  • Mixing in Porous Media: Concepts and Approaches Across Scales (2022) published in Transport in Porous Media
  • Anomalous Transport in Three-Dimensional Discrete Fracture Networks: Interplay Between Aperture Heterogeneity and Injection Modes (2020) published in Water Resources Research
  • Pore-Scale Mixing and the Evolution of Hydrodynamic Dispersion in Porous Media (2021) published in Physical Review Letters
  • Structure induced laminar vortices control anomalous dispersion in porous media (2022) published in Nature Communications
  • Transport Upscaling under Flow Heterogeneity and Matrix-Diffusion in Three-Dimensional Discrete Fracture Networks (2021) published in Advances in Water Resources

Their publications are frequently found in these venues:

  • Water Resources Research
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Advances in Water Resources
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Transport in Porous Media

Marco has collaborated extensively with several researchers, notably:

  • Juan J. Hidalgo
  • Daniel Lester
  • Alexandre Puyguiraud
  • Luis Cueto-Felgueroso
  • Tanguy Le Borgne

Best Publications

  • Mixing, spreading and reaction in heterogeneous media: a brief review.

    Marco Dentz;Tanguy Le Borgne;Andreas Englert;Branko Bijeljic

  • Time behavior of solute transport in heterogeneous media: transition from anomalous to normal transport

    Marco Dentz;Andrea Cortis;Harvey Scher;Brian Berkowitz

  • Transport behavior of a passive solute in continuous time random walks and multirate mass transfer

    Marco Dentz;Marco Dentz;Brian Berkowitz

  • Flow intermittency, dispersion, and correlated continuous time random walks in porous media

    Pietro de Anna;Pietro de Anna;Tanguy Le Borgne;Marco Dentz;Alexandre M. Tartakovsky

  • Anisotropic dispersive Henry problem

    Elena Abarca;Jesús Carrera;Xavier Sánchez-Vila;Marco Dentz

  • Temporal behavior of a solute cloud in a heterogeneous porous medium: 1. Point‐like injection

    M. Dentz;H. Kinzelbach;S. Attinger;W. Kinzelbach

  • Non-Fickian mixing: Temporal evolution of the scalar dissipation rate in heterogeneous porous media

    Tanguy Le Borgne;Marco Dentz;Diogo Bolster;Jesus Carrera

  • Impact of velocity correlation and distribution on transport in fractured media: Field evidence and theoretical model

    Peter K. Kang;Tanguy Le Borgne;Marco Dentz;Olivier Bour

  • Stretching, Coalescence, and Mixing in Porous Media

    Tanguy Le Borgne;Marco Dentz;Emmanuel Villermaux

  • The lamellar description of mixing in porous media

    Tanguy Le Borgne;Marco Dentz;Emmanuel Villermaux

  • A Novel Multirate Dual-Porosity Model for Improved Simulation of Fractured and Multiporosity Reservoirs

    Sebastian Geiger;Marco Dentz;Insa Neuweiler

  • Mixing and spreading in stratified flow

    Marco Dentz;Jesus Carrera

  • Effects of CO2 compressibility on CO2 storage in deep saline aquifers.

    Victor Vilarrasa;Victor Vilarrasa;Diogo Bolster;Marco Dentz;Sebastia Olivella

  • Random Walk Methods for Modeling Hydrodynamic Transport in Porous and Fractured Media from Pore to Reservoir Scale

    Benoit Noetinger;Delphine Roubinet;Anna Russian;Tanguy Le Borgne

  • Diffusion in Porous Media: Phenomena and Mechanisms

    Daniel M. Tartakovsky;Marco Dentz

  • Spatial Markov processes for modeling Lagrangian particle dynamics in heterogeneous porous media.

    Tanguy Le Borgne;Marco Dentz;Jesus Carrera

  • Non-Fickian dispersion in porous media explained by heterogeneous microscale matrix diffusion

    Philippe Gouze;Yasmin Melean;Tanguy Le Borgne;Marco Dentz

  • Flow topology and scalar mixing in spatially heterogeneous flow fields

    Felipe P. J. de Barros;Marco Dentz;Jonas Koch;Wolfgang Nowak

  • Multicomponent reactive transport in multicontinuum media

    Leonardo David Donado;Leonardo David Donado;Xavier Sanchez-Vila;Marco Dentz;Jesus Carrera

  • Spatial Markov model of anomalous transport through random lattice networks.

    Peter K K Kang;Marco Dentz;Tanguy Le Borgne;Ruben Juanes

  • Coupling of mass transfer and reactive transport for nonlinear reactions in heterogeneous media

    M. Willmann;M. Willmann;J. Carrera;X. Sanchez-Vila;O. Silva

  • Abrupt-Interface Solution for Carbon Dioxide Injection into Porous Media

    Marco Dentz;Daniel M. Tartakovsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Jesús Carrera
Jesús Carrera Spanish National Research Council
Diogo Bolster
Diogo Bolster University of Notre Dame
Emmanuel Villermaux
Emmanuel Villermaux Aix-Marseille University
Alexandre M. Tartakovsky
Alexandre M. Tartakovsky University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Xavier Sanchez-Vila
Xavier Sanchez-Vila Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Olivier Bour
Olivier Bour University of Rennes
Brian Berkowitz
Brian Berkowitz Weizmann Institute of Science
Philippe Davy
Philippe Davy University of Rennes
Timothy R. Ginn
Timothy R. Ginn Washington State University

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