Supervised Thesis

Mixing by confined and heterogeneous porous media
Dr. Mayumi Hamada (2021, PhD)

Filtration by heterogeneous porous materials
Dr. Filippo Miele (2020, PhD)

Under review…

Publications

2024

  1. (29)
    The impact of diffusiophoresis on hydrodynamic dispersion and filtration in porous media
    Mamta Jotkar, Pietro de Anna, Marco Dentz and Luis Cueto-Felgueroso
    Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 991, Article number: 191

2023

  1. (28)
    Spatial structure, chemotaxis and quorum sensing shape biomass accumulation in complex systems
    David Scheidweiler, Ankur Deep Bordoloi, Vladimir Sentchilo, Monica Bollani, Philipp Engel and Pietro de Anna
    Nature Communications, 15, Article number: 191
  2. (27)
    The influence of finite size particles on fluid velocity and transport though porous media
    Mirko Residori, Simoin Praetorius, Pietro de Anna and Axel Vogel
    Physical Review Fluids 8, 074501

2022

  1. (26)
    Microfluidic study in a meter-long reactive path reveals how the medium’s structural heterogeneity shapes MICP-induced biocementation
    Ariadni Elmaloglou, Dimitrios Terzis, Pietro De Anna, Lyesse Laloui
    Scientific Reports
  2. (25)
    Morphology and size of bacterial colonies control anoxic microenvironment formation in porous media
    Giulia Ceriotti, Sergey M. Borisov, Jasmine Berg, Pietro de Anna
    Environmental Science & Technology
    ArXiv – pre-print
  3. (24)
    Structure induced laminar vortices control anomalous dispersion in porous media
    Ankur Deep Bordoloi, David Scheidweiler, Marco Dentz, Mohammed Bouabdellaoui, Marco Abbarchi and Pietro de Anna
    Nature Communnications 13, 3820
    …the associated data set is freely available at https://zenodo.org/record/6617923

2021

  1. (23)
    A method to measure the diffusion coefficient in liquids
    Mayumi Hamada and Pietro de Anna
    Transport in Porous Media (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-021-01704-0)
  2. (22)
    Electrical Signatures of Diffusion-Limited Mixing: Insights from a Milli-fluidic Tracer Experiment
    Alejandro Fernandez Visentini, Pietro de Anna, Damien Jougnot, Tanguy Le Borgne, Yves Méheust and Niklas Linde
    Transport in Porous Media (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-021-01607-0)
  3. (21)
    Chemotaxis under flow disorder shapes microbial dispersion in porous media
    Pietro de Anna, Amir A. Pahlavan, Yutaka Yawata, Roman Stocker and Ruben Juanes
    Nature Physics 17, pages 68–73 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-1002-x
    …the associated data set is freely available at https://zenodo.org/record/3926720

2020

  1. (20)
    Diffusion limited mixing in confined media
    Mayumi Hamada, Luis Cueto-Felgueroso and Pietro de Anna
    Physical Review Fluids 5, 124502
  2. (19)
    Morphogenesis of phototrophic biofilms is controlled by hydraulic constraints and enabled by architectural plasticity
    Anna Depetris, Hannes Peterm Ankur Deep Bordoloi, Hippolyte Bernard, Amin Niayifar, Michael Kühl, Pietro de Anna and Tom Battin
    iScience
  3. (18)
    Tools Combining Fluidic Devices with Microscopy and Flow Cytometry to Study Microbial Transport in Porous Media Across Spatial Scales
    David Scheidweiler, Pietro de Anna, Tom Battin and Hannes Peter
    Journal of Visualized Experiments
  4. (17)
    Biophysical controls on the trait-specific dispersal of bacteria in heterogeneous porous environments across spatial scales
    David Scheidweiler, Filippo Miele, Hannes Peter, Tom J. Battin and Pietro de Anna
    The Journal of the Royal Society of Interface, Volume 17 Issue 164
    …the associated data set is freely available at https://zenodo.org/record/3696539
  5. (16)
    Hyperuniform Monocrystalline Structures by Spinodal Solid-State Dewetting
    Marco Salvalaglio, Mohammed Bouabdellaoui, Monica Bollani, Abdennacer Benali, Luc Favre, Jean-Benoit Claude, Jerome Wenger, Pietro de Anna, Francesca Intonti, Axel Voigt, and Marco Abbarchi
    Physical Review Letters, 125, 126101

2019

  1. (15)
    A stochastic model for filtration by porous media
    Filippo Miele, Pietro de Anna and Marco Dentz
    Physical Review Fluids, 4 094101
  2. (14)
    Architectural plasticity of biofilms enhances space exploitation and fitness in porous systems
    David Scheidweiler, Hannes Peter, Paraskevi Pramateftaki, Pietro de Anna and Tom J. Battin
    The ISME Journal, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0381-4

2017

  1. (13)
    Prediction of the low-velocity distribution from the pore structure in simple porous media
    Pietro de Anna, Bryan Quaife, George Biros and Ruben Juanes
    Physical Review Fluids 2, 124103

2015

  1. (12)
    Interface evolution during radial miscible viscous fingering
    Jane Y. Y. Chui, Pietro de Anna, and Ruben Juanes
    Physical Review E 92, 041003(R)
  2. (11)
    Pore-scale mechanisms for the enhancement of mixing in unsaturated porous media and implications for chemical reactions
    Joaquín Jiménez-Martínez, Pietro de Anna, Hervé Tabuteau, Régis Turuban, Tanguy Le Borgne and Yves Méheust
    Geophysical Research Letters 10.1002/2015GL064513

2014

  1. (10)
    Mixing and Reaction Kinetics in Porous Media: An Experimental Pore Scale Quantification
    Pietro de Anna, Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez, Hervé Tabuteau, Regis Turuban, Tanguy Le Borgne, Morgane Derrien and Yves Méheust
    Environtal Science & Technology, 48
  2. (9)
    The filamentary structure of mixing fronts and its control on reaction kinetics in porous media flows
    Pietro de Anna, Marco Dentz, Alexandre Tartakovsky and Tanguy Le Borgne
    Geophysical Research Letters 10.1002/2014GL060068
  3. (8)
    Pore-scale intermittent velocity structure underpinning anomalous transport through 3-D porous media
    Peter K. Kang, Pietro de Anna, Joao P. Nunes Branko Bijeljic, Martin J. Blunt and Ruben Juanes
    Geophysical Research Letters 10.1002/2014GL061475

2013

  1. (7)
    Flow Intermittency, Dispersion, and Correlated Continuous Time Random Walks in Porous Media
    Pietro de Anna, Tanguy Le Borgne, Marco Dentz, Alexandre M. Tartakovsky, Diogo Bolster and Philippe Davy
    Physical Review Letters 110, 184502
  2. (6)
    Reaction chain modeling of denitrification reactions during a push–pull test
    Alexandre Boisson, Pietro de Anna, Olivier Bour, Tanguy Le Borgne, Tierry Labasque and Luc Aquilina
    Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 148 (2013) 1–11

2012

  1. (5)
    Incomplete mixing and reactions with fractional dispersion
    Diogo Bolster, Pietro de Anna, David A. Benson, Alexandre M. Tartakovsky
    Advances in Water Resources 37 (2012) 86–93
  2. (4)
    Effect of spatial concentration fluctuations on effective kinetics in diffusion-reaction systems
    A. M. Tartakovsky, Pietro de Anna, Tanguy Le Borgne, Ariel Balter and Diogo Bolster
    Water Resources Research, 48, W02526

2011

  1. (3)
    Anomalous kinetics in diffusion limited reactions linked to non-Gaussian concentration probability distribution function
    Pietro de Anna, Tanguy Le Borgne, Marco Dentz, Diogo Bolster, and Philippe Davy
    Jouranal of Chemical Physics 135, 174104
  2. (2)
    Effective pore-scale dispersion upscaling with a correlated continuous time random walk approach
    Tanguy Le Borgne, Diogo Bolster, Marco Dentz, Pietro de Anna, and Alexandre Tartakovsky
    Water Resources Research, 47, W12538

2010

  1. (1)
    Spatial model of autocatalytic reactions
    Pietro de Anna, Francesca Dipatti, Duccio Fanelli, Alan J. McKane and Tierry Dauxois
    Physical Review E 81, 056110