A computational framework based on explicit local chemical equilibrium for coupled chemo-hydro-mechanical effects on fluid-infiltrating porous media

Conventionally, a finite element framework for coupled hydro-mechanical-chemical processes in porous media adopts simplified chemical reactions, which consider superficial chemical effects of complicated multiphysics mechanisms. This paper presents a novel computational framework for geochemistry of reactive multi-component systems to explicitly capture the mineral dissolution/precipitation of saturated porous media. The resultant of this …