Lagrangian approach to analysis and engineering of two generic transport problems in enhanced subsurface flows.

Scope is scalar transport in enhanced subsurface flows driven by injection and extraction wells. Two transport problems of great practical relevance, viz. (i) rapid scalar extraction and (ii) contained in situ processing, are investigated in terms of the thermal transport in a two-dimensional circular subsurface reservoir with a well-driven Darcy-type flow.

Control of mixing via entropy tracking.

We study mixing of isothermal fluids by controlling the global hydrodynamic entropy . In particular, based on the statistical coupling between the evolution of and the global viscous dissipation <ϵ> , we analyze stirring protocols such that ∼t(α)⇔<ϵ>∼t(α-1), with 0<α≤1. For a model array of vortices [Fukuta and Murakami, Phys.