A Lagrangian method for reactive transport with solid/aqueous chemical phase interaction

Abstract A significant drawback of Lagrangian (particle-tracking) reactive transport models has been their inability to properly simulate interactions between solid and liquid chemical phases, such as dissolution and precipitation reactions. This work addresses that problem by implementing a mass-transfer algorithm between mobile and immobile sets of particles that allows aqueous species of reactant that are undergoing transport to interact with stationary solid species. This mass-transfer algorithm is demonstrated to solve the diffusion equation for an arbitrarily small level of diffusion and thus does not introduce any spurious mixing. The algorithm can be combined with random walks to simulate the desired total level of diffusion in a reactive transport system.