CompLaB v1.0: a scalable pore-scale model for flow, biogeochemistry, microbial metabolism, and biofilm dynamics
Heewon Jung,Hyun-Seob Song,and Christof Meile
Heewon Jung
Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Department of Geological Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, South Korea
Hyun-Seob Song
Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Department of Food Science and Technology, Nebraska Food for Health Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
Microbial activity responsible for many chemical transformations depends on environmental conditions. These can vary locally, e.g., between poorly connected pores in porous media. We present a modeling framework that resolves such small spatial scales explicitly, accounts for feedback between transport and biogeochemical conditions, and can integrate state-of-the-art representations of microbes in a computationally efficient way, making it broadly applicable in science and engineering use cases.
Microbial activity responsible for many chemical transformations depends on environmental...