Flow in porous media—pore-network models and multiphase flow

MJ Blunt - Current opinion in colloid & interface science, 2001 - Elsevier
In the last 3 years there has been a huge increase in the use of pore-scale modeling to study
multiphase flow and transport in porous media. Starting from single pore models of fluid …

Modeling and simulation of pore‐scale multiphase fluid flow and reactive transport in fractured and porous media

P Meakin, AM Tartakovsky - Reviews of Geophysics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
In the subsurface, fluids play a critical role by transporting dissolved minerals, colloids, and
contaminants (sometimes over long distances); by mediating dissolution and precipitation …

Detailed physics, predictive capabilities and macroscopic consequences for pore-network models of multiphase flow

MJ Blunt, MD Jackson, M Piri, PH Valvatne - Advances in Water Resources, 2002 - Elsevier
Pore-network models have been used to describe a wide range of properties from capillary
pressure characteristics to interfacial area and mass transfer coefficients. The void space of …

Visualizing and quantifying the crossover from capillary fingering to viscous fingering in a rough fracture

YF Chen, S Fang, DS Wu, R Hu - Water Resources Research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Immiscible fluid‐fluid displacement in permeable media is important in many subsurface
processes, including enhanced oil recovery and geological CO2 sequestration. Controlled …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial prediction of landslide susceptibility using logistic regression (LR), functional trees (FTs), and random subspace functional trees (RSFTs) for Pengyang …

H Shang, L Su, W Chen, P Tsangaratos, I Ilia, S Liu… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Landslides pose significant and serious geological threat disasters worldwide, threatening
human lives and property; China is particularly susceptible to these disasters. This paper …

Saturated flow in a single fracture: Evaluation of the Reynolds equation in measured aperture fields

MJ Nicholl, H Rajaram, RJ Glass… - Water Resources …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Fracture transmissivity and detailed aperture fields are measured in analog fractures
specifically designed to evaluate the utility of the Reynolds equation. We employ a light …

Measurement of aperture distribution, capillary pressure, relative permeability, and in situ saturation in a rock fracture using computed tomography scanning

SP Bertels, DA DiCarlo, MJ Blunt - Water Resources Research, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
We develop an experimental technique that uses computed tomography (CT) scanning to
provide high‐resolution measurements of aperture distribution and in situ saturation along …

Pore scale modeling of rate effects in imbibition

RG Hughes, MJ Blunt - Transport in porous media, 2000 - Springer
We use pore scale network modeling to study the effects of flow rate and contact angle on
imbibition relative permeabilities. The model accounts for flow in wetting layers that occupy …

Two‐phase relative permeability of rough‐walled fractures: a dynamic pore‐scale modeling of the effects of aperture geometry

Y Gong, M Sedghi, M Piri - Water Resources Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
An accurate description of the relative permeability–saturation function is crucial for reliable
predictions of multi‐phase flow behavior in subsurface applications. Although extensive …