These dissolution and precipitation reactions can modify the porosity and permeability of porous media, but predictive capabilities of such impacts are limited.Mineral reactions occur on reactive surfaces given perturbations from equilibrium. Mineral dissolution occurs in undersaturated conditions and oversaturated conditions favor mineral precipitation. Porosity increases with mineral dissolution and decreases with mineral precipitation such that the overall porosity can typically be effectively predicted. Permeability evolution, however, cannot be as easily predicted. Previous literature has observed that an increase in porosity can result in an increase (
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