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 …

Dynamics of Air Flow in Partially Water‐Saturated Porous Media

I Ben‐Noah, SP Friedman… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamics of flowing air in partially water‐saturated, porous geological formations are
governed by a wide range of forces and parameters. These dynamics are reviewed in the …

Systematic investigation of corner flow impact in forced imbibition

Y Liu, S Berg, Y Ju, W Wei, J Kou… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Imbibition in porous media plays a crucial role in many engineering and industrial
processes, such as enhanced oil recovery and groundwater contamination remediation …

X‐ray microtomography of intermittency in multiphase flow at steady state using a differential imaging method

Y Gao, Q Lin, B Bijeljic, MJ Blunt - Water resources research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We imaged the steady state flow of brine and decane in Bentheimer sandstone. We devised
an experimental method based on differential imaging to examine how flow rate impacts …

Pore-scale dynamics and the multiphase Darcy law

Y Gao, Q Lin, B Bijeljic, MJ Blunt - Physical Review Fluids, 2020 - APS
Synchrotron x-ray microtomography combined with sensitive pressure differential
measurements were used to study flow during steady-state injection of equal volume …

Quantification of nonlinear multiphase flow in porous media

Y Zhang, B Bijeljic, Y Gao, Q Lin… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We measure the pressure difference during two‐phase flow across a sandstone sample for
a range of injection rates and fractional flows of water, the wetting phase, during an …

[HTML][HTML] Pore occupancy, relative permeability and flow intermittency measurements using X-ray micro-tomography in a complex carbonate

Y Gao, AQ Raeini, MJ Blunt, B Bijeljic - Advances in Water Resources, 2019 - Elsevier
We imaged the steady-state flow of brine and decane (oil) at different fractional flows during
dual injection in a micro-porous limestone, Estaillades, using X-ray micro-tomography. We …

Pore‐scale imaging of multiphase flow fluctuations in continuum‐scale samples

S Wang, C Spurin, T Bultreys - Water Resources Research, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Representative elementary volumes (REVs) are an important concept in studying
subsurface multiphase flow at the continuum scale. However, fluctuations in multiphase flow …

[HTML][HTML] A statistical mechanics framework for immiscible and incompressible two-phase flow in porous media

A Hansen, EG Flekkøy, S Sinha, PA Slotte - Advances in Water Resources, 2023 - Elsevier
We construct a statistical mechanics for immiscible and incompressible two-phase flow in
porous media under local steady-state conditions based on the Jaynes maximum entropy …

Bingham and herschel-bulkley fluids flow regimes in rough-walled rock fractures

L Zou, M Tang, B Li - International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining …, 2024 - Elsevier
Flow of typical non-Newtonian fluids such as cement grouts can experience different
regimes as the Reynolds number (Re) changes, understanding of which is important for …