Experimental and computational advances on the study of viscous fingering: an umbrella review

A Pinilla, M Asuaje, N Ratkovich - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
During the production of heavy oil reservoirs, the movement of the fluids, namely oil and
water, significantly affects the production rates. This movement is influenced by the mobility …

The shibantan lagerstätte: Insights into the proterozoic–phanerozoic transition

S Xiao, Z Chen, K Pang, C Zhou… - Journal of the Geological …, 2021 - lyellcollection.org
The Shibantan Lagerstätte (551–543 Ma) in the Yangtse Gorges area in South China is one
of the best-known examples of terminal Ediacaran fossil assemblages preserved in marine …

Wettability and Lenormand's diagram

BK Primkulov, AA Pahlavan, X Fu, B Zhao… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Fluid–fluid displacement in porous media has been viewed through the lens of Lenormand's
phase diagram since the late 1980s. This diagram suggests that the character of the flow is …

Suppression of Complex Fingerlike Patterns at the Interface between Air<? format?> and a Viscous Fluid by Elastic Membranes

D Pihler-Puzović, P Illien, M Heil, A Juel - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
Growth of complex dendritic fingers at the interface of air and a viscous fluid in the narrow
gap between two parallel plates is an archetypical problem of pattern formation. We find a …

Signatures of fluid–fluid displacement in porous media: wettability, patterns and pressures

BK Primkulov, AA Pahlavan, X Fu, B Zhao… - Journal of Fluid …, 2019 - cambridge.org
We develop a novel 'moving-capacitor'dynamic network model to simulate immiscible fluid–
fluid displacement in porous media. Traditional network models approximate the pore …

Patterns and flow in frictional fluid dynamics

B Sandnes, EG Flekkøy, HA Knudsen, KJ Måløy… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Pattern-forming processes in simple fluids and suspensions have been studied extensively,
and the basic displacement structures, similar to viscous fingers and fractals in capillary …

Active control of viscous fingering using electric fields

T Gao, M Mirzadeh, P Bai, KM Conforti… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Viscous fingering is a widely observed phenomenon, in which finger-like instabilities occur
at the interface of two fluids, whenever a less viscous phase displaces a more viscous …

Controlling viscous fingering using time-dependent strategies

Z Zheng, H Kim, HA Stone - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
Control and stabilization of viscous fingering of immiscible fluids impacts a wide variety of
pressure-driven multiphase flows. We report theoretical and experimental results on a time …

Minimization of viscous fluid fingering: a variational scheme for optimal flow rates

EO Dias, E Alvarez-Lacalle, MS Carvalho, JA Miranda - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
Conventional viscous fingering flow in radial Hele-Shaw cells employs a constant injection
rate, resulting in the emergence of branched interfacial shapes. The search for mechanisms …

Transition from viscous fingering to capillary fingering: Application of GPU‐based fully implicit dynamic pore network modeling

S An, H Erfani, OE Godinez‐Brizuela… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Immiscible two‐phase flow through porous materials exhibits different invasion patterns
controlled by dynamic conditions, competition between the viscous and capillary forces, and …