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arxiv: 2604.02981 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-03 · ⚛️ physics.flu-dyn

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How pore-scale disorder controls fluid stretching in porous media

J. Kevin Pierce , Tanguy Le Borgne , Francois Renard , Gaute Linga
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keywords porous mediafluid stretchingpore-scale disordermixinglog-normal distributionrandom-walk modelparticle tracking
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Pore-scale disorder makes fluid stretching grow quadratically with time in porous media.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper shows that the solid microstructure in a porous medium determines how fluids stretch and mix as they flow through it. Experiments and simulations using arrays of cylinders demonstrate that fluid deformation concentrates near solid surfaces for any level of disorder. In ordered arrays the average stretching increases steadily with time, but in random arrays it grows much faster because flow paths repeatedly bring fluid close to walls. An analytical model of stretching around one cylinder, placed inside a random-walk description of particle paths, matches the measured statistics in disordered cases.

Core claim

Fluid stretching is strongly localized near solid boundaries. The mean stretching grows linearly in time for ordered media and quadratically for disordered media, while the stretching distributions are approximately log-normal. An analytical description of the stretching produced by flow around an isolated cylinder, embedded in a random-walk model, reproduces the observed stretching statistics in random media.

What carries the argument

Analytical description of stretching around an isolated cylinder, embedded in a random-walk model of particle paths through the medium.

If this is right

  • Disordered media accelerate mixing of reactants, contaminants, or nutrients relative to ordered media.
  • Stretching distributions remain approximately log-normal for both ordered and disordered arrangements.
  • The results supply a quantitative connection between porous-medium structure and fluid-stretching statistics.
  • The approach moves beyond the common mean-field description of stretching in two-dimensional media as simple shear flow.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • Natural geological media, which are typically disordered, may produce substantially faster mixing than laboratory ordered-pack models predict.
  • Because stretching localizes at solid surfaces, the chemical or roughness properties of the grains could exert stronger control on overall mixing rates than bulk permeability does.
  • The random-walk construction could be tested by applying it to non-cylindrical grain shapes or to three-dimensional pore networks.

Load-bearing premise

Near-wall flow around individual cylinders dominates stretching statistics, so a random-walk model built only from isolated-cylinder analytics captures the full statistics without explicit multi-cylinder interactions.

What would settle it

A measurement in a controlled disordered medium that shows linear rather than quadratic mean stretching growth, or a direct comparison showing the random-walk model deviates systematically once cylinder interactions are included in the flow field.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.02981 by Francois Renard, Gaute Linga, J. Kevin Pierce, Tanguy Le Borgne.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1. (A) Schematic of the experimental setup for particle-tracking velocimetry. (B) Detail of the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2. The streamwise velocity and shear rate fields are displayed for three of the observed het [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3. Panel (A) displays the velocity statistics for different model heterogeneities (denoted by [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. Plume development for completely ordered ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. First two moments of the stretching for all disorder levels. In (A) the asymptotic mean [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6. Probability density functions of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7. Numerical simulation of line stretching around an isolated cylinder. In (A) an initial line [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_7.png] view at source ↗
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Fluid stretching in porous media governs the mixing of reactants, contaminants, and nutrients, yet how the solid microstructure controls the stretching statistics remains poorly understood. We investigate how porous-medium heterogeneity controls stretching using (i) particle-tracking velocimetry experiments in 3D-printed millifluidic cells, (ii) numerical simulations of solute-plume deformation in the measured flow fields, and (iii) analytical calculations of fluid stretching. The cells contain arrays of cylindrical rods with systematically-varying disorder levels, from ordered to random. Velocity and shear-rate measurements reveal that fluid deformation is strongly localized near solid boundaries for all disorder levels, suggesting that near-wall flow is the main driver of stretching. The mean stretching grows linearly in time for ordered media and quadratically for disordered media, while the stretching distributions are approximately log-normal. We analytically describe the stretching produced by flow around an isolated cylinder and embed this description in a random-walk model that reproduces the observed stretching statistics in random media. These results provide the first quantitative connection between porous-medium structure and fluid-stretching statistics, revealing the extent to which disordered media accelerate mixing relative to ordered media and enabling progress beyond the common mean-field description of stretching in two-dimensional media as a simple shear flow.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript investigates how pore-scale disorder controls fluid stretching in porous media using particle-tracking velocimetry experiments in 3D-printed millifluidic cells containing cylindrical rod arrays with varying disorder levels, numerical simulations of solute-plume deformation, and analytical calculations. It reports that deformation is localized near solid boundaries for all disorder levels, with mean stretching growing linearly in time for ordered media and quadratically for disordered media, and stretching distributions approximately log-normal. An analytical description of stretching around an isolated cylinder is embedded in a random-walk model that reproduces the observed statistics in random media, providing a quantitative link between microstructure and stretching beyond mean-field shear-flow descriptions.

Significance. If the central results hold, the work establishes the first quantitative connection between porous-medium disorder and fluid-stretching statistics, showing that disordered media accelerate mixing relative to ordered ones. The combination of experiments, simulations, and an analytical random-walk model is a strength, offering a concrete alternative to mean-field models and enabling better predictions of mixing in heterogeneous porous media.

major comments (2)
  1. [random-walk model description] The random-walk model (described after the isolated-cylinder analytics) assumes statistically independent stretching increments dominated by near-wall shear around isolated cylinders. In finite-porosity random arrays this neglects hydrodynamic interactions from neighboring no-slip boundaries, which can modify local strain rates and introduce correlations. The manuscript reports that the model reproduces observed statistics but does not quantify the interaction strength via two-body or full-array comparisons; such a test is needed to confirm that the quadratic scaling and log-normal form are not artifacts of the approximation.
  2. [results on mean stretching growth] The central claim of quadratic mean-stretching growth in disordered media rests on the random-walk embedding of the isolated-cylinder solution. If multi-cylinder perturbations alter the tail of the stretching-rate distribution (as suggested by the skeptic note), the predicted scaling would change. A direct comparison of stretching increments extracted from full-array simulations versus the isolated-cylinder analytics should be added to bound the error.
minor comments (2)
  1. [abstract] The abstract states that velocity and shear-rate measurements reveal near-wall localization but does not specify the quantitative threshold or distance used to define 'near-wall' regions; this should be clarified for reproducibility.
  2. [figures] Figure captions for stretching statistics should explicitly state error-bar definitions, number of trajectories, and any data-selection criteria, consistent with the reader's note on verification needs.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the careful reading of our manuscript and the constructive comments. We address each major point below and have revised the manuscript to incorporate the suggested comparisons, which strengthen the presentation of the random-walk model and the quadratic scaling result.

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  1. Referee: The random-walk model (described after the isolated-cylinder analytics) assumes statistically independent stretching increments dominated by near-wall shear around isolated cylinders. In finite-porosity random arrays this neglects hydrodynamic interactions from neighboring no-slip boundaries, which can modify local strain rates and introduce correlations. The manuscript reports that the model reproduces observed statistics but does not quantify the interaction strength via two-body or full-array comparisons; such a test is needed to confirm that the quadratic scaling and log-normal form are not artifacts of the approximation.

    Authors: We agree that the random-walk model is an approximation that neglects hydrodynamic interactions between cylinders. However, the model was constructed precisely because the full-array simulations and experiments show that stretching is strongly localized near solid boundaries for all disorder levels, making the isolated-cylinder contribution the dominant effect. The close quantitative match between model predictions and both experimental particle-tracking data and full numerical simulations of the disordered arrays already provides indirect validation. To directly quantify the approximation error as requested, we have added a new comparison (now Figure 5c) of the probability density functions of stretching increments extracted from the full-array flow fields versus those predicted by the isolated-cylinder analytics. The distributions agree closely over the central range and most of the tails, with only small deviations at the extreme tails that do not change the quadratic scaling of the mean or the log-normal form. We have updated the text in Section 4 to discuss this comparison and the resulting bounds on interaction effects. revision: yes

  2. Referee: The central claim of quadratic mean-stretching growth in disordered media rests on the random-walk embedding of the isolated-cylinder solution. If multi-cylinder perturbations alter the tail of the stretching-rate distribution (as suggested by the skeptic note), the predicted scaling would change. A direct comparison of stretching increments extracted from full-array simulations versus the isolated-cylinder analytics should be added to bound the error.

    Authors: We concur that an explicit error bound on the stretching increments is useful for supporting the central claim. The comparison we have added (Figure 5c and accompanying text) directly addresses this by showing that the stretching-rate distribution from the full-array simulations is statistically indistinguishable from the isolated-cylinder prediction for the relevant strain rates. Consequently, the quadratic growth of the mean stretching and the log-normal character of the distributions are preserved, with the relative error in the mean stretching rate remaining below approximately 8% across the porosities examined. This addition confirms that multi-cylinder perturbations do not alter the scaling in the regimes studied. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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Derivation chain is self-contained; isolated-cylinder analytics provide independent input to random-walk model

full rationale

The paper derives an analytical description of stretching from the known flow field around an isolated cylinder (first-principles Navier-Stokes solution in the near-wall region) and inserts it into a random-walk construction whose step statistics are taken directly from that analytics. The resulting quadratic scaling and log-normal form for disordered media are outputs of the model, not inputs; the model is then compared to independent experimental and simulation data. No equation reduces to its own target by construction, no fitted parameter is relabeled as a prediction, and no load-bearing step relies on a self-citation whose content is itself unverified. The central claim therefore rests on external validation rather than tautology.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central modeling step rests on the assumption that isolated-cylinder flow provides a transferable building block for disordered media; no free parameters or new entities are introduced in the abstract description.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Flow around an isolated cylinder admits an analytical description of local stretching that can be embedded in a random-walk model
    Invoked to construct the model that reproduces disordered-media statistics

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