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We quantify the destabilising effect of a first-order chemical reaction on the fingering instability of a diffusive boundary layer in a porous medium. Using scaling, we show that the dynamics of such a reactive boundary layer is fully determined by two dimensionless groups: Da/Ra 2 , which measures the timescale for convection compared to those for reaction and diffusion; and β C /β A , which reflects the density change induced by the product relative to that of the diffusing solute. Linear stability and numerical results for β C /β A in the range 0-10 and Da/Ra 2 in the range 0-0.01 are presented. It is shown that the chemical reaction increases the growth rate of a transverse perturbation and favours large wavenumbers compared to the inert system. Higher β C /β A and Da/Ra 2 not only accelerate the onset of convection, but crucially also double the transport of the solute compared to the inert system. Application of our findings to the storage of carbon dioxide in carbonate saline aquifers reveals that chemical equilibrium curtails this increase of CO 2 flux to 50%.

Reactive–convective dissolution in a porous medium: the storage of carbon dioxide in saline aquifers