Micromodel observation of the role of oil layers in three-phase flow

AA Keller, MJ Blunt, APV Roberts - Transport in porous media, 1997 - Springer
… -aqueous phase liquid (NAPL, or oil), water and air at the pore scale using a micromodel. The
… cannot have the same connectivity as a three-dimensional network of pores, the continuity …

A review of micromodels and their use in two‐phase flow studies

NK Karadimitriou, SM Hassanizadeh - Vadose Zone Journal, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… dimensional and three-dimensional micromodels relates … micromodels in two-phase flow
is the optical visualization of flow and the distribution of fluids in three-dimensional micromodels

Micromodel studies of three‐fluid porous media systems: Pore‐scale processes relating to capillary pressure‐saturation relationships

WE Soll, MA Celia, JL Wilson - Water resources research, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
… The technique used for creating micromodels results in three-dimensional pore spaces that
do not have smooth, regular walls, but rather are "eye-shaped." Figure 3 shows an idealized …

A hybrid-dimensional coupled pore-network/free-flow model including pore-scale slip and its application to a micromodel experiment

K Weishaupt, A Terzis, I Zarikos, G Yang… - Transport in Porous …, 2020 - Springer
… We consider two-dimensional and three-dimensional setups and … interface pore body for
three-dimensional and two-dimensional … fluids in this work) across the interface is enforced via …

Comparison of flow and transport experiments on 3D printed micromodels with direct numerical simulations

F Watson, J Maes, S Geiger, E Mackay… - Transport in Porous …, 2019 - Springer
… studies assess mixing and reaction processes by observing the properties of fluids at
micromodel outlet (eg colour, chemical composition). Instead, in this paper we describe the …

Benchmarking the viability of 3D printed micromodels for single phase flow using particle image velocimetry and direct numerical simulations

A Patsoukis Dimou, HP Menke, J Maes - Transport in Porous Media, 2022 - Springer
… Recent advances in three-dimensional (3D) printing allow for … custom-designed micromodels
accurately and repeatably … nature, micromodels permit direct fluid flow visualisation with …

Challenges in modeling unstable two‐phase flow experiments in porous micromodels

A Ferrari, J Jimenez‐Martinez… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… accuracy, and (iii) three-dimensional effects. Although the unstable … We compare the spatial
distribution of the two fluids at … Although the experimental micromodel can be seen as a (…

Experimental visualization and analysis of multiphase immiscible flow in fractured micromodels using micro-particle image velocimetry

N Haque, A Singh, UK Saha - Journal of Energy …, 2022 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
… (2D) [16,17] and three-dimensional (3D) micromodels [18]. The 2D … Thence, the effect of
presence of fractures on residual fluidmicromodel whereby the effects of fracture on fluidfluid

Two-dimensional micromodels for studying the convective dissolution of carbon dioxide in 2D water-saturated porous media

N De, N Singh, R Fulcrand, Y Méheust, P Meunier… - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
… convection of the liquid containing the dissolved CO 2 , and mixing of the latter within the liquid,
has … Three-dimensional (3D) experiments based on X-ray tomography 13,14 or magnetic …

Empowering microfluidics by micro-3D printing and solution-based mineral coating

H Li, A Raza, Q Ge, JY Lu, TJ Zhang - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
… In order to plant CalNP seeds on the inner surfaces of the as-printed micromodel, a fluid
2c, we printed a three-dimensional rock micromodel based on a stack of μ-CT images. The μ…