DeePore: A deep learning workflow for rapid and comprehensive characterization of porous materials

A Rabbani, M Babaei, R Shams, Y Da Wang… - Advances in Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
DeePore 2 is a deep learning workflow for rapid estimation of a wide range of porous
material properties based on the binarized micro–tomography images. By combining …

Pore scale investigation on scaling-up micro-macro capillary number and wettability on trapping and mobilization of residual fluid

Y Wang, R Song, JJ Liu, MM Cui, PG Ranjith - Journal of contaminant …, 2019 - Elsevier
The mobilization mechanism of the trapped phases controlled by the viscous force and
capillary force in porous media is crucial to various engineering applications. In this paper …

Comparison of micro-and macro-wettability measurements and evaluation of micro-scale imbibition rates for unconventional reservoirs: Implications for modeling multi …

HJ Deglint, CR Clarkson, A Ghanizadeh… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2019 - Elsevier
Significant advances have been made in the evaluation of micro-and nano-scale variations
of pore structure in low-permeability (unconventional) reservoirs using imaging techniques …

Live imaging of micro-wettability experiments performed for low-permeability oil reservoirs

HJ Deglint, CR Clarkson, C DeBuhr, A Ghanizadeh - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Low-permeability (unconventional) hydrocarbon reservoirs exhibit a complex nanopore
structure and micro (µm)-scale variability in composition which control fluid distribution …

Lattice Boltzmann methods for industrial applications

KV Sharma, R Straka, FW Tavares - Industrial & Engineering …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We present an overview of recent advancements and potentialities for industrial applications
of lattice Boltzmann methods (LBMs). Various processes and phenomena with industrial …

Impact of mineralogy and wettability on pore-scale displacement of NAPLs in heterogeneous porous media

M Arshadi, M Gesho, T Qin, L Goual, M Piri - Journal of contaminant …, 2020 - Elsevier
Subsurface formations often contain multiple minerals with different wettability
characteristics upon contact with nonaqueous-phase liquids (NAPLs). Constitutive …

Pore-scale permeability calculation using CFD and DSMC techniques

P Mohammadmoradi, A Kantzas - SPE Rocky Mountain Petroleum …, 2016 - onepetro.org
Numerical experiments are performed to evaluate the capability and examine the
computational costs and tradeoffs of numerical and analytical approaches for apparent gas …

Water freezing characteristics in granular soils: Insights from pore-scale simulations

B Gharedaghloo, SJ Berg, EA Sudicky - Advances in Water Resources, 2020 - Elsevier
It has been observed in both laboratory and field studies that unfrozen soil moisture content
is hysteretic between freezing and thawing conditions. While a few explanations have been …

[HTML][HTML] Micro-scale wettability of carbonate rocks via high-resolution ESEM imaging

K Al-Naimi, M Arif, M Aboushanab, D Anjum… - Results in Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
The wettability of several materials has been traditionally quantified using macro-scale
contact angles. However, precise identification of the three-phase contact (TPC) line is often …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of capillary end effects on steady-state relative permeability estimates from direct pore-scale simulations

GR Guédon, JDH Hyman, F Inzoli, M Riva… - Physics of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate and characterize the influence of capillary end effects on steady-state relative
permeabilities obtained in pore-scale numerical simulations of two-phase flows. Our study is …