Multiphase fluid-rock interactions and flow behaviors in shale nanopores: A comprehensive review

J Cai, X Jiao, H Wang, W He, Y Xia - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
The complicated flow behaviors of multiphase fluids in shale reservoirs are significantly
influenced by fluid-fluid and fluid-rock interactions due to the non-negligible intermolecular …

Pore-network modeling of flow in shale nanopores: Network structure, flow principles, and computational algorithms

R Cui, SM Hassanizadeh, S Sun - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Hydrocarbons in subsurface nanoporous media, such as shale, are promising energy
resources to compensate for the shortage of conventional reservoirs. Pore-network …

Flow behaviors of shale oil in kerogen slit by molecular dynamics simulation

J Liu, Y Yang, S Sun, J Yao, J Kou - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
In the last decades, shale oil, mainly distributed in the nanopores of shale, has been
considered as the representative of unconventional energy to alleviate the energy crisis. But …

A review on shale oil and gas characteristics and molecular dynamics simulation for the fluid behavior in shale pore

S Sun, S Liang, Y Liu, D Liu, M Gao, Y Tian… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Shale oil and gas primarily exist in nanoscale pore-fracture networks. Thus, it is essential to
clarify the flow behavior of hydrocarbon in confined nanopores. This paper summarizes …

Sticky layers affect oil transport through the nanopores of realistic shale kerogen

S Wang, Y Liang, Q Feng, F Javadpour - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the transport mechanism of hydrocarbons through kerogen nanopores is
crucial to shale oil production. However, existing studies primarily focus on single …

Pseudopotential-based multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann model for multicomponent and multiphase slip flow

W Wang, Q Xie, H Wang, Y Su… - Advances in Geo …, 2023 - ager.yandypress.com
The microscale liquid flow in nanoscale systems considering slip boundary has been widely
studied in recent years, however, they are limited to single-phase flow. As in nature …

CO2-oil diffusion, adsorption and miscible flow in nanoporous media from pore-scale perspectives

H Wang, Y Su, W Wang, Z Jin, H Chen - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Enhancing shale/tight oil and sequestering CO 2 by CO 2 huff-n-puff have gained extensive
attentions in recent years. However, the fundamental understanding of CO 2-oil diffusion …

Monitoring oil displacement and CO2 trapping in low-permeability media using NMR: A comparison of miscible and immiscible flooding

M Cai, Y Su, Y Hao, Y Guo, D Elsworth, L Li, D Li, X Li - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Dynamic monitoring of the internal fluid distribution during CO 2 immiscible/miscible flooding
provides a crucial window for illuminating key processes controlling displacement and …

Effect of surface roughness on methane adsorption in shale organic nanopores from the perspective of molecular simulations

S Zhan, J Bao, S Ning, M Zhang, J Wu, X Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding the shale gas adsorption behavior within organic nanopores is crucial for its
development. The pore surfaces commonly exhibit random inherent roughness, which can …

Molecular dynamics simulations of two-phase flow of n-alkanes with water in quartz nanopores

J Xu, S Zhan, W Wang, Y Su, H Wang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanopore networks comprising shale reservoirs exhibit special behaviors in two-phase flow.
We use molecular dynamics simulations (MD) to explore the single n-alkanes (nC3-nC10) …