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Both medium and pore-fluid compressibility was neglected in the previous study of the classical reactive infiltration instability problem within a fluid-saturated porous medium (Chadam et al. 1986, 1988; Ortoleva et al. 1987). Due to this simplification, the critical condition, which is used to assess whether or not the fully-coupled nonlinear system between porosity, pore-fluid pressure and reactive chemical-species transport within the fluid-saturated porous medium can become unstable, was rigorously derived in a pure mathematical manner.
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Zhao, C. (2014). Effects of Medium and Pore-Fluid Compressibility on Chemical Dissolution-Front Instability in Fluid-Saturated Porous Media. In: Physical and Chemical Dissolution Front Instability in Porous Media. Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08461-9_7
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