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

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
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 Conveners:  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, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaisons:  Ryan T Armstrong, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
Pore Scale View of Fluid Displacement Fronts in Porous Media
Dani Or and Franziska Moebius, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
2:00 PM
 
Simulation of Multiphase FLOW at the Pore Scale: Doable, Useful?
Hamdi Tchelepi1, Moataz Abu AlSaud1 and Cyprien Soulaine2, (1)Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
2:20 PM
 
Numerical and experimental evaluation of ferrofluid potential in mobilizing trapped non-wetting fluid
Masa Prodanovic, Fernando Soares and Chun Huh, University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States
2:40 PM
 
Particle Image Velocimetry Analysis in Micromodels to Investigate Two-Phase Flow Mechanisms
Sophie Roman, Cyprien Soulaine and Anthony R Kovscek, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
2:55 PM
 
Inertial Effects and Interface Dynamics during Rapid Fluid Reconfigurations
Ivan Lunati and Andrea Ferrari, University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland
3:10 PM
 
Wettability Control on Fluid-Fluid Displacements in Patterned Microfluidics
Benzhong Zhao, Mathias Trojer, Luis Cueto-Felgueroso and Ruben Juanes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
3:25 PM
 
Simulation of Two-Phase Flow Based on a Thermodynamically Constrained Averaging Theory Flow Model
Timothy M Weigand1, Amanda Lynn Dye1, James E McClure2, Matthew W Farthing3, William G Gray1 and Cass T Miller1, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (3)US Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS, United States
 
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