Mass Transfer and Phase Transformations in Permafrost
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263). This special issue belongs to the section "Cryosphere".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2024) | Viewed by 6102
Special Issue Editor
Interests: permafrost; natural gas hydrate; Arctic, freezing sediments; hydrate formation and decomposition in sediments; experimental modeling; properties of frozen and hydrate bearing sediments; ice formation; heat and mass transfer in freezing and frozen sediments; gas in permafrost; structure of frozen soils; contaminations in freezing soils; methane emission in Arctic
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Geosciences aims to gather original research articles and reviews on the study of heat and mass exchange processes in permafrost. These studies include an analysis of water–ice and water (ice)–hydrate phase transitions in the pore space of sediments; a description of the migration of water, salts, gases, and various chemical pollutants (in freezing, frozen, and thawing rocks); and an assessment of the influence of these processes on the properties and behavior of permafrost.
Permafrost is known to be a multi-component and multi-phase soil ground with a negative temperature and ice content. There are complex geochemical, physio-chemical, and physio-mechanical processes, especially at the stage of permafrost degradation. This is expressed in the increase in its permeability, the release of various gas and liquid fluids, and the development of deformations and stresses in the sediments, which are relevant to global warming.
Therefore, I would like to invite you to submit articles about your recent work or field, or experimental or case studies in relation to the above and/or the following topics:
- Mass transfer and phase transitions in freezing and frozen rocks;
- Ice and hydrate formation in the rocks;
- The impact of heat–mass exchange processes on the properties and behavior of the permafrost;
- The decomposition of gas hydrates in the permafrost environment;
- The permeability of permafrost;
- Gas emission from the frozen strata of the Arctic coast and the Arctic shelf.
Dr. Evgeny Chuvilin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- permafrost
- freezing sediments
- ice and gas hydrate in sediments
- mass transfer in freezing and frozen sediments
- properties of frozen and thawing sediments
- phase transformations in permafrost
- permafrost degradation
- gas hydrate decomposition
- methane emissions in Arctic
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