H44E:
Persistent Problems in Multiphase Flow and Transport in Porous Media: Modeling and Visualization from Pore to Laboratory and Field Scales III


Session ID#: 10570

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, Joaquin Jimenez Martinez, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Fei Jiang, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Chairs:  Joaquin Jimenez Martinez, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Fei Jiang, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
OSPA Liaison:  Farzan Kazemifar, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States
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:

Rugged Energy Landscapes in Multiphase Porous Media Flow: A Discrete-Domain Description (Invited) (71749)
Luis Cueto-Felgueroso, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain and Ruben Juanes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Foam Flows in Analog Porous Media (Invited) (75651)
Yves Meheust, Université of Rennes, Geosciences, UMR CNRS 6118, Rennes, France, Baudouin Géraud, University of Cambridge, DAMTP, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Siân A. Jones, Delft University of Technology, e Department of Geoscience and Engineering, Delft, Netherlands, Isabelle Cantat, University of Rennes, Institut de Physique de Rennes, UMR CNRS 6251, Rennes, France and Benjamin Dollet, Université de Rennes, Rennes, France
Wetting and Roughness: Pattern Formation in a Rough Fracture (68655)
Amir A Pahlavan1, Luis Cueto-Felgueroso2, Gareth H McKinley2 and Ruben Juanes3, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Impact of Saline Tracer Mixing on Upscaled Electrical Resistivity Under Partially Saturated Conditions: Insights From a Pore-scale Fluorimetry Study (68400)
Damien Jougnot, Sorbonne Universite, UMR 7619 METIS, Paris, France, Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez, EAWAG-ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Yves Meheust, University of Rennes, Geosciences, CNRS, UMR 6118, Rennes Cedex, France, Tanguy Le Borgne, University of Rennes 1, Géosciences Rennes UMR 6118, Rennes, France and Niklas Linde, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Capacity Estimation of Capillary Trapping of CO2 in Heterogeneous Saline Aquifers Through 3-D Invasion-Percolation Simulations at the cm-to-m Scale (62554)
Luca Trevisan, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Prasanna G Krishnamurthy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States and Timothy A Meckel, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, United States
Controls on the stability of immiscible fluid displacement: Interplay between wettability, dynamics and heterogeneity (66967)
Ran Holtzman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel and Enrico Segre, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Automated lab-scale visualization of the influence of water table transients on LNAPL source zone dynamics (72282)
Simiao SUN, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom, Alan William Herbert, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom and Michael O Rivett, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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