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

NK Karadimitriou, SM Hassanizadeh - Vadose Zone Journal, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
During the last 25 to 30 yr, micromodels have been increasingly used to study the behavior
of fluids inside microstructures in various research areas. Studies have included chemical …

Transient two-phase flow in porous media: a literature review and engineering application in geotechnics

G Yan, Z Li, SA Galindo Torres, A Scheuermann, L Li - Geotechnics, 2022 - mdpi.com
This work reviews the transient two-phase flow in porous media with engineering
applications in Geotechnics. It initially overviews constitutive relationships, conventional …

Influence of viscous and capillary forces on immiscible fluid displacement: Pore-scale experimental study in a water-wet micromodel demonstrating viscous and …

C Zhang, M Oostrom, TW Wietsma, JW Grate… - Energy & …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Unstable immiscible fluid displacement in porous media affects geological carbon
sequestration, enhanced oil recovery, and groundwater contamination by non-aqueous …

Direct numerical simulations of interface dynamics to link capillary pressure and total surface energy

A Ferrari, I Lunati - Advances in water resources, 2013 - Elsevier
The flow of two immiscible fluids through a porous medium depends on the complex
interplay between gravity, capillarity, and viscous forces. The interaction between these …

Liquid CO2 Displacement of Water in a Dual-Permeability Pore Network Micromodel

C Zhang, M Oostrom, JW Grate… - … science & technology, 2011 - ACS Publications
Permeability contrasts exist in multilayer geological formations under consideration for
carbon sequestration. To improve our understanding of heterogeneous pore-scale …

Pore-scale modeling of non-isothermal two phase flow in 2D porous media: Influences of viscosity, capillarity, wettability and heterogeneity

HAA Amiri, AA Hamouda - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper addresses simulation of non-isothermal water-oil displacements in porous media
at pore-scale. The simulation approach was done by coupling Cahn–Hilliard phase field and …

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J VIEIRA, MNDOE BIFÁSICO, EMMPCOMP CAPILAR - 2003 - repositorio.unicamp.br
We discuss a numerical modeling to approximate a two-phase flow in a heterogeneous
porous media taking into account effects of dynamic capillary pressure. The governing …

The impact of pore‐scale flow regimes on upscaling of immiscible two‐phase flow in porous media

D Picchi, I Battiato - Water resources research, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Empirical or theoretical extensions of Darcy's law for immiscible two‐phase flow have shown
significant limitations in properly modeling the flow at the continuum scale. We tackle this …

A comprehensive review of factors affecting dynamic capillary effect in two-phase flow

Y Chen, Y Mao, L Yang, W Wei, Q Meng… - Transport in porous media, 2022 - Springer
The dynamic capillary effect, which is a common phenomenon of two-phase flow in porous
media, has crucial importance in various fields. Several factors, such as permeability, grain …

Comparison of pore-scale capillary pressure to macroscale capillary pressure using direct numerical simulations of drainage under dynamic and quasi-static …

S Konangi, NK Palakurthi, NK Karadimitriou… - Advances in Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
Conventional macroscale two-phase flow equations for porous media (such as Darcy's law
and Richards Equation) require a constitutive relation for capillary pressure (P c). The …