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arxiv: 2511.17115 · v2 · submitted 2025-11-21 · ⚛️ physics.flu-dyn

Transport and removal of a passive tracer in porous media employing surface washing

Georgia Ioannou , Francesco Paolo Cont`o , Merlin A. Etzold , Julien R. Landel , Stuart B. Dalziel This is my paper

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keywords surface washingporous mediapassive tracermass transportthree-stage processgravity-driven filmdiffusion and advectionporous plate
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Surface washing removes a passive tracer from porous plates in three distinct stages.

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This experimental study tracks how a gravity-driven liquid film flowing over a porous plate washes out a disodium fluorescein tracer that has diffused into the plate. Removal proceeds in three stages: fast initial extraction from surface roughness, slower transport limited by vertical diffusion into the bulk, and faster advection once the concentrated tracer region reaches the downstream edge. The parametric variations in film properties, plate permeability, tracer loading, and penetration depth show how each factor shifts the timing and rates of these stages. These observations supply concrete guidance for designing more effective washing protocols in industrial cleaning and environmental remediation of porous materials.

Core claim

The paper establishes that tracer removal by surface washing follows a three-stage mass-transport process consisting of an initial period of rapid removal of the tracer found within the surface roughness, followed by a period of slower removal limited by vertical diffusion, and a third stage of accelerated advection-dominated removal when the tracer-rich region that was transported downstream during the second stage reaches the downstream boundary of the porous plate. Quantitative fluorescence measurements of effluent concentration and dye-attenuation imaging of the surface distribution provide the evidence for this sequence.

What carries the argument

The three-stage mass-transport process arising from the interplay of surface film flow, vertical diffusion into the porous medium, and downstream advection once tracer reaches the plate boundary.

If this is right

  • Removal rates depend on washing-film characteristics and porous-plate permeability.
  • Initial tracer amount, spatial extent, and diffusive penetration depth control the duration of the diffusion-limited stage.
  • The accelerated final stage occurs reliably once the tracer-rich region reaches the downstream boundary.
  • The observed stages supply practical rules for adjusting flow speed or exposure time to optimize total tracer extraction.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The staged removal timeline could be used to estimate required washing durations for porous filters or contaminated soil in field settings.
  • Analogous three-stage dynamics may appear when surface flow acts on other porous natural materials such as riverbed sediments.
  • Introducing surface-active agents might shorten the diffusion-limited stage by changing penetration or interfacial transport.

Load-bearing premise

The tracer remains completely passive with no chemical reactions or adsorption on the porous medium, and the fluorescence and imaging measurements accurately reflect true concentrations without optical artifacts.

What would settle it

A time series of effluent concentration that shows only one or two monotonic phases instead of the predicted rapid-slow-accelerated sequence, or that lacks the final acceleration precisely when the downstream edge is reached, would falsify the three-stage description.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2511.17115 by Francesco Paolo Cont`o, Georgia Ioannou, Julien R. Landel, Merlin A. Etzold, Stuart B. Dalziel.

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This experimental study investigates the dynamics of surface washing to remove a passive tracer from a porous plate by a gravity-driven liquid film across its surface. A disodium fluorescein tracer is introduced at the surface of a water-saturated porous plate and allowed to diffuse into the plate for a number of hours before a film of water solution flows over its surface to extract and transport the tracer away. The removal rate of the tracer is monitored quantitatively by using fluorescence measurements to determine the concentration in the effluent from the washing process. These measurements are supplemented by dye-attenuation imaging, which provides mainly qualitative insights about the tracer's concentration distribution on the porous plate surface. Our findings reveal a three-stage mass-transport process consisting of an initial period of rapid removal of the tracer found within the surface roughness, followed by a period of slower removal, which appears to be limited by vertical diffusion, and a third stage of accelerated advection-dominated removal when the tracer-rich region that was transported downstream during the second stage reaches the downstream boundary of the porous plate. A parametric study explores the influence of the characteristics of the washing film, the permeability of the porous plate, the amount and initial spatial extent of the tracer on the porous plate and the tracer's diffusive penetration depth on the mass removal rates. Our insights offer practical guidance for optimising surface washing protocols for porous systems in industrial and environmental applications.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript reports an experimental investigation of removing a passive tracer (disodium fluorescein) from a water-saturated porous plate by flowing a gravity-driven liquid film across the surface. Tracer is first allowed to diffuse into the plate for several hours; removal is then quantified via fluorescence-based effluent concentration measurements and supplemented by dye-attenuation imaging of the surface. The central claim is the existence of a three-stage mass-transport process: rapid initial removal of tracer from surface roughness, a slower intermediate stage attributed to vertical diffusion, and a final accelerated advection-dominated stage once the downstream-transported tracer-rich region reaches the plate outlet. A parametric study examines the effects of film characteristics, plate permeability, tracer amount and initial extent, and diffusive penetration depth on removal rates.

Significance. If the three-stage description and its mechanistic attributions hold under quantitative scrutiny, the work supplies useful practical guidance for optimizing surface-washing protocols in porous-media applications such as industrial cleaning or environmental remediation. The combination of quantitative effluent monitoring with imaging provides direct observational access to the transport dynamics, and the parametric variations help map how operating conditions influence removal efficiency. The experimental design is straightforward and reproducible in principle, though the overall impact depends on strengthening the evidence for the diffusion-limited interpretation of the second stage.

major comments (2)
  1. Results section describing the three-stage process (effluent curves and dye-attenuation images): the attribution of the intermediate slower-removal regime to vertical diffusion is presented as an interpretation based on curve shape and visual appearance. No explicit comparison is made between the observed duration of this regime and the characteristic diffusive timescale set by the reported penetration depth and the diffusivity of fluorescein. Without this check, the data remain consistent with alternative mechanisms such as slow release from roughness or weak internal advection, weakening the mechanistic claim.
  2. Results or discussion of stage identification: the boundaries separating the three stages are identified by eye from the effluent concentration time series rather than by a reproducible quantitative criterion (e.g., change-point detection, slope threshold, or piecewise fitting). This affects the reliability of any subsequent parametric comparisons that rely on stage-specific rates or durations.
minor comments (2)
  1. Methods: provide explicit values (with uncertainties) for all key parameters—film flow rate, plate thickness and permeability, initial tracer concentration, and penetration depth—so that the parametric study can be fully reproduced and the diffusive timescale can be calculated by readers.
  2. Figure captions and text: clarify whether the imaging is used only qualitatively or whether any quantitative intensity-to-concentration calibration was performed and validated.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their thorough review and valuable comments, which have helped us improve the clarity and rigor of our manuscript. We address each major comment below and outline the revisions we will make.

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  1. Referee: Results section describing the three-stage process (effluent curves and dye-attenuation images): the attribution of the intermediate slower-removal regime to vertical diffusion is presented as an interpretation based on curve shape and visual appearance. No explicit comparison is made between the observed duration of this regime and the characteristic diffusive timescale set by the reported penetration depth and the diffusivity of fluorescein. Without this check, the data remain consistent with alternative mechanisms such as slow release from roughness or weak internal advection, weakening the mechanistic claim.

    Authors: We agree with the referee that a direct comparison to the diffusive timescale would strengthen the mechanistic attribution. In the revised version, we will calculate the characteristic diffusion time using the penetration depth and the known diffusivity of disodium fluorescein. We will then compare this timescale to the duration of the intermediate stage observed in the effluent curves for different experimental conditions. This addition will help substantiate the diffusion-limited nature of the second stage and address potential alternative explanations. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Results or discussion of stage identification: the boundaries separating the three stages are identified by eye from the effluent concentration time series rather than by a reproducible quantitative criterion (e.g., change-point detection, slope threshold, or piecewise fitting). This affects the reliability of any subsequent parametric comparisons that rely on stage-specific rates or durations.

    Authors: We recognize that visual identification of stage boundaries, while guided by clear changes in slope and supported by imaging, lacks full reproducibility. In the revision, we will introduce a quantitative method for stage delineation, such as applying a threshold on the rate of change in effluent concentration or performing piecewise linear fits to identify transition points. This will be documented in the methods and applied uniformly to all datasets, improving the reliability of our parametric analysis. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

This manuscript is an experimental study that reports direct measurements of effluent concentration via fluorescence and qualitative dye-attenuation imaging of tracer distribution on a porous plate. The central claim of a three-stage mass-transport process is presented as an empirical description of observed removal rates under varying film characteristics, permeability, tracer amount, and penetration depth. No equations, first-principles derivations, parameter fits presented as predictions, or self-citation chains appear in the provided text. The attribution of the intermediate stage to vertical diffusion is an interpretive comment on the data shape rather than a reduction of any result to its own inputs by construction. The work is self-contained through its experimental protocol and measurements, with no load-bearing steps that collapse to tautology or renaming of inputs.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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This experimental paper introduces no new theoretical entities or derivations. The central observations rest on standard assumptions about passive scalar transport in fluid dynamics experiments.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption The disodium fluorescein tracer behaves as a passive scalar with no significant chemical interactions or adsorption on the porous medium.
    Invoked throughout the experimental design and interpretation of transport stages.
  • domain assumption Fluorescence intensity and dye-attenuation imaging provide accurate quantitative and qualitative measures of tracer concentration.
    Basis for all removal rate measurements described in the abstract.

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