H43L:
Persistent Problems in Multiphase Flow and Transport in Porous Media: Modeling and Visualization from Pore to Laboratory and Field Scales II


Session ID#: 10569

Session Description:
Predicting multiphase flow and transport processes in Earth’s subsurface remains a grand scientific and engineering challenge (e.g., CO2 sequestration, unconventional oil and gas extraction, enhanced oil recovery, contaminant transport in the vadose zone). It is well documented that conventional continuum-scale theories and models oversimplify and/or ignore many important pore-scale fluid displacement and transport (i.e., mixing and (bio)-reaction) processes, which often results in large uncertainties when applied to field-scale operations. Recent developments in pore-scale visualization and modeling techniques for flow and solute transport in multiphase conditions provide the necessary information to improve continuum-scale theories and models. We solicit submissions addressing state-of the-art pore-scale visualization techniques, modeling capabilities, and theoretical approaches. We are especially interested submissions that link important pore-scale fluid displacement and transport processes to continuum-scale models and their associated constitutive relationships, as well as submissions that address alternatives and limitations to conventional continuum-scale models.
Primary Convener:  Mark L Porter, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Farzan Kazemifar, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States; University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom, Joaquin Jimenez Martinez, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Fei Jiang, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Chairs:  Mark L Porter, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Farzan Kazemifar, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Fei Jiang, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Index Terms:

1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1875 Vadose zone [HYDROLOGY]
5104 Fracture and flow [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]
5114 Permeability and porosity [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Using Combined X-ray Computed Tomography and Acoustic Resonance to Understand Supercritical CO2 Behavior in Fractured Sandstone (Invited) (59972)
Timothy J Kneafsey and Seiji Nakagawa, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Migration of buoyant non-wetting fluids in heterogeneous porous media (Invited) (67196)
Christian Huber1, Andrea Parmigiani2, Salah Aldin Faroughi1, Olivier Bachmann2 and Hamid Karani3, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
Observations of the Dynamic Connectivity of the Non-Wetting Phase During Steady State Flow at the Pore Scale Using 3D X-ray Microtomography (66286)
Catriona Anne Reynolds, Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom, Hannah P Menke, Imperial College London, Earth Science and Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Martin Julian Blunt, Imperial College London, Earth Science & Engineering, London, United Kingdom and Samuel C Krevor, Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom
Connecting Pore Scale Dynamics to Macroscopic Models for Two-Fluid Phase Flow (79408)
James E McClure, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Amanda L Dye, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Cass T Miller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Science and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and William G Gray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Simulations of flow mode distributions on rough fracture surfaces using a parallelized Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) model (72408)
Elena Shigorina1, Jannes Kordilla1, Alexandre M Tartakovsky2, Wenxiao Pan2 and Tobias Geyer3, (1)University of Göttingen, Applied Geosciences, Göttingen, Germany, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (3)Landesamt für Geologie, Rohstoffe und Bergbau, Freiburg, Germany
Influence of reservoir conditions on multiphase flow in natural sandstone using lattice Boltzmann simulation: Investigation of suitable conditions in CCS and EOR (77123)
Takeshi Tsuji, Kyushu University, Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Fukuoka, Japan, Fei Jiang, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan and Kenneth T Christensen, University of Notre Dame, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Natural Length Scales Shape Liquid Phase Continuity in Unsaturated Flows (64366)
Shmuel Assouline, Agricultural Research Organization Volcani Center, Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, Bet-Dagan, Israel, Peter Lehmann, ETH Zurich, Departement of Environmental Systems Science, Zurich, Switzerland and Dani Or, ETH Zurich, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Zürich, Switzerland

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