The relationship between capillary pressure and saturation plays a critical role in the
characterization of two-phase flow and transport in aquifers and oil reservoirs. This …

Imbibition is very common, occurring in life, material, chemistry, and energy. It plays an
important role in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The development of many reservoirs is …

1Department of Astronautics and Mechanics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001,
PR China 2Oil Production Engineering Research Institute of Daqing Oilfield Co. Ltd, Daqing …

The breakthrough of shale oil in North America led to a worldwide energy revolution. Shale
reservoirs show multiscale properties and a large proportion of nanopores compared to …

Spontaneous imbibition, as a fundamental flow phenomenon, is widely utilized in fossil
energy production, carbon dioxide and underground hydrogen storage. With the …

Roughness and wettability of the fracture surface have crucial effects on the two-phase flow
properties in many applications involving fractured rock. The immiscible quasi-static …

The dynamic pore-network modeling, as an efficient pore-scale tool, has been used to
understand imbibition in porous media, which plays an important role in many subsurface …

Spontaneous imbibition widely occurs during the industrial development of tight reservoirs.
Clarifying the spontaneous imbibition mechanisms and the key influencing factors …

Modeling of fluid flow in porous media is a pillar in geoscience applications. Previous
studies have revealed that heterogeneity and fracture distribution have considerable …

Horizontal wells with complicated fracture networks have become a key technical measure
to improve the oil recovery of low-permeability and tight reservoirs in China. Spontaneous …