Microfluidic model porous media: Fabrication and applications

A Anbari, HT Chien, SS Datta, W Deng, DA Weitz… - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Complex fluid flow in porous media is ubiquitous in many natural and industrial processes.
Direct visualization of the fluid structure and flow dynamics is critical for understanding and …

A general review of CO2 sequestration in underground geological formations and assessment of depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs in the Niger Delta

PA Eigbe, OO Ajayi, OT Olakoyejo, OL Fadipe, S Efe… - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the viability of CO 2 storage in geological formations, including
depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs applying 3-dimensional seismic and well data of the Niger …

Organic contaminant transport and fate in the subsurface: Evolution of knowledge and understanding

HI Essaid, BA Bekins… - Water Resources Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Toxic organic contaminants may enter the subsurface as slightly soluble and volatile
nonaqueous phase liquids (NAPLs) or as dissolved solutes resulting in contaminant plumes …

Characterization of immiscible fluid displacement processes with various capillary numbers and viscosity ratios in 3D natural sandstone

T Tsuji, F Jiang, KT Christensen - Advances in Water Resources, 2016 - Elsevier
To characterize the influence of reservoir conditions upon multiphase flow, we calculated
fluid displacements (drainage processes) in 3D pore spaces of Berea sandstone using two …

Wettability impact on supercritical CO2 capillary trapping: Pore‐scale visualization and quantification

R Hu, J Wan, Y Kim… - Water Resources Research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
How the wettability of pore surfaces affects supercritical (sc) CO2 capillary trapping in
geologic carbon sequestration (GCS) is not well understood, and available evidence …

An experimental study of pore-scale flow dynamics and heavy oil recovery using low saline water and chemical flooding

VK Sharma, A Singh, P Tiwari - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
We report a quantitative analysis of pore-scale flow dynamics and displacement behavior of
heavy oil recovery at the micro and macro-scale to optimize different chemical flooding …

Lattice Boltzmann simulations of liquid CO2 displacing water in a 2D heterogeneous micromodel at reservoir pressure conditions

Y Chen, Y Li, AJ Valocchi, KT Christensen - Journal of contaminant …, 2018 - Elsevier
We employed the color-fluid lattice Boltzmann multiphase model to simulate liquid CO 2
displacing water documented in experiments in a 2D heterogeneous micromodel at …

Wettability effects on supercritical CO2–brine immiscible displacement during drainage: Pore-scale observation and 3D simulation

R Hu, J Wan, Y Kim, TK Tokunaga - International Journal of Greenhouse …, 2017 - Elsevier
Wettability is an important factor controlling the displacement of immiscible fluids in porous
media and therefore affects the flow and transport of supercritical (sc) CO 2 in geologic …

Review of microfluidic devices and imaging techniques for fluid flow study in porous geomaterials

A Jahanbakhsh, KL Wlodarczyk, DP Hand, RRJ Maier… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Understanding transport phenomena and governing mechanisms of different physical and
chemical processes in porous media has been a critical research area for decades …

A phase-field lattice Boltzmann model for simulating multiphase flows in porous media: Application and comparison to experiments of CO2 sequestration at pore scale

A Fakhari, Y Li, D Bolster, KT Christensen - Advances in water resources, 2018 - Elsevier
We implement a phase-field based lattice-Boltzmann (LB) method for numerical simulation
of multiphase flows in heterogeneous porous media at pore scales with wettability effects …