Complex and active fluids find broad applications in flows through porous materials.
Nontrivial rheology can couple to porous microstructure leading to surprising flow patterns …

Viscoelastic fluids are a common subclass of rheologically complex materials that are
encountered in diverse fields from biology to polymer processing. Often the flows of …

In recent years, silica-based polymer nanofluids (NFs) have attracted more and more
attention because they can enhance temperature and salt tolerance. This study summarized …

Viscoelastic flows through porous media become unstable and chaotic beyond critical flow
conditions, impacting widespread industrial and biological processes such as enhanced oil …

The flow of viscoelastic polymeric fluids through porous media is common in industrial
applications such as oil recovery and groundwater remediation. Polymeric stresses can lead …

In this study, lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is utilized for three-dimensional simulation of
fluid flow through two porous structures, consisting of grains with the same diameter:(i) a …

Capillary desaturation process was investigated as a function of wetting phase rheological
signatures during the injection of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids. Two sets of two …

Viscoelastic flows through microscale porous arrays exhibit complex path selection and
switching phenomena. However, understanding this process is limited by a lack of studies …

We employ a state-of-the-art microfabrication technique (selective laser-induced etching) to
fabricate a set of axisymmetric microfluidic geometries featuring a 4: 1 contraction followed …

It has been confirmed that high salinity significantly reduces the oil recovery from polymer
flooding, which is generally considered to be due to the loss of polymer viscoelasticity …