H13P:
Persistent Problems in Multiphase Flow in Porous Media: Modern Approaches to Modelling and Visualization of Flow from Pore to Laboratory and Field-Scales I

Session ID#: 4914

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
3014 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Mark L Porter, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Luis Cueto-Felgueroso, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Convener:  Mark L Porter, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Co-conveners:  Ryan T Armstrong, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Luis Cueto-Felgueroso, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States and Florian Doster, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Ryan T Armstrong, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Index Terms:

1832 Groundwater transport [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1866 Soil moisture [HYDROLOGY]
1875 Vadose zone [HYDROLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Carbon Dioxide Sequestration

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

H13P-01
Pore Scale View of Fluid Displacement Fronts in Porous Media (Invited) (3749)
Dani Or and Franziska Moebius, ETH Zurich, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Zürich, Switzerland
H13P-02
Simulation of Multiphase FLOW at the Pore Scale: Doable, Useful? (Invited) (5368)
Hamdi Tchelepi, Stanford University, Stanford, United States, Motaz Abu AlSaud, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States and Cyprien Soulaine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
H13P-03
Numerical and experimental evaluation of ferrofluid potential in mobilizing trapped non-wetting fluid (Invited) (6446)
Masa Prodanovic1, Fernando Soares2 and Chun Huh2, (1)The University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States
H13P-04
Particle Image Velocimetry Analysis in Micromodels to Investigate Two-Phase Flow Mechanisms (8179)
Sophie Roman1, Cyprien Soulaine1 and Anthony R Kovscek2, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, United States
H13P-05
Inertial Effects and Interface Dynamics during Rapid Fluid Reconfigurations (9590)
Ivan Lunati and Andrea Ferrari, University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland
H13P-06
Wettability Control on Fluid-Fluid Displacements in Patterned Microfluidics (10178)
Benzhong Zhao1, Mathias Trojer2, Luis Cueto-Felgueroso2 and Ruben Juanes3, (1)McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Resources Laboratory, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
H13P-07
Simulation of Two-Phase Flow Based on a Thermodynamically Constrained Averaging Theory Flow Model (16977)
Timothy M Weigand1, Amanda L Dye2, James E McClure3, Matthew W Farthing4, William G Gray2 and Cass T Miller1, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Science and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (2)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (3)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (4)US Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS, United States
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