Pore-scale modeling of complex transport phenomena in porous media

L Chen, A He, J Zhao, Q Kang, ZY Li… - Progress in Energy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Porous media play important roles in a wide range of scientific and engineering problems.
Recently, with their increasing application in energy conversion and storage devices, such …

Imaging and image-based fluid transport modeling at the pore scale in geological materials: A practical introduction to the current state-of-the-art

T Bultreys, W De Boever, V Cnudde - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Fluid flow and mass transport in geological materials are crucial in diverse Earth science
applications. To fully understand the behavior of geological materials in this context, the …

Multiphase lattice Boltzmann simulations for porous media applications: A review

H Liu, Q Kang, CR Leonardi, S Schmieschek… - Computational …, 2016 - Springer
Over the last two decades, lattice Boltzmann methods have become an increasingly popular
tool to compute the flow in complex geometries such as porous media. In addition to single …

A pore network model for simulating non-ideal gas flow in micro-and nano-porous materials

J Ma, JP Sanchez, K Wu, GD Couples, Z Jiang - Fuel, 2014 - Elsevier
The capability to simulate real gas flow in porous materials with micro-and nano-meter-scale
pores is of importance in many applications, such as gas extraction from shale reservoirs …

Characterization of gas transport behaviors in shale gas and tight gas reservoirs by digital rock analysis

H Sun, J Yao, Y Cao, D Fan, L Zhang - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2017 - Elsevier
Due to the extremely tiny pore size of tight gas and shale gas reservoir, the modified Darcy's
law in which the intrinsic permeability is replaced by the apparent permeability that can be …

Finite-difference method Stokes solver (FDMSS) for 3D pore geometries: Software development, validation and case studies

KM Gerke, RV Vasilyev, S Khirevich, D Collins… - Computers & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Permeability is one of the fundamental properties of porous media and is required for large-
scale Darcian fluid flow and mass transport models. Whilst permeability can be measured …

Efficient flow and transport simulations in reconstructed 3D pore geometries

Y Zaretskiy, S Geiger, K Sorbie, M Förster - Advances in Water Resources, 2010 - Elsevier
Upscaling pore-scale processes into macroscopic quantities such as hydrodynamic
dispersion is still not a straightforward matter for porous media with complex pore space …

Pore network extraction for fractured porous media

Z Jiang, MIJ Van Dijke, S Geiger, J Ma… - Advances in Water …, 2017 - Elsevier
Although flow through fractured rocks involves many different length-scales, it is crucial for
the prediction of continuum-scale single-and multi-phase flow functions to understand, at the …

An improved gray lattice Boltzmann model for simulating fluid flow in multi-scale porous media

J Zhu, J Ma - Advances in Water Resources, 2013 - Elsevier
A lattice Boltzmann (LB) model is proposed for simulating fluid flow in porous media by
allowing the aggregates of finer-scale pores and solids to be treated as 'equivalent media' …

GPU data access on complex geometries for D3Q19 lattice Boltzmann method

G Herschlag, S Lee, JS Vetter… - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
GPU performance of the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) depends heavily on memory
access patterns. When LBM is advanced with GPUs on complex computational domains …