H21N:
Hydrocarbon Multiphase, Multiscale Flow, and Transport Characterization in Porous Media: Theoretical, Numerical, and Experimental Advances I


Session ID#: 10622

Session Description:
This session works toward integrating scientific community to share their progress and challenges in subsurface flow and transport studies from pore to field scale. These phenomena provide the fundamental platform for extraction of hydrocarbon resources and CO2 storage in geological formations, and play a critical rule in maintaining and protecting water resources. The main goal is to address unresolved problems in computational methods, experiments and visualization to advance our knowledge of the physics and chemistry of pore scale phenomena from nano to meso scale and demonstrate their significance for large-scale flow and transport in porous media. Exemplar problems of interest include but are not limited to: direct numerical simulations, multiphase flow, pore network models, flow through nano scale pores in shale, evaluating petrophysical properties, non-Newtonian flow, solute/contaminant transport, reactive transport, EOR in conventional and unconventional plays, pore scale imaging, visualization and characterization, MRI/PIV techniques for flow visualization in porous media.
Primary Convener:  Soheil Ghanbarzadeh, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Conveners:  Branko Bijeljic, Imperial College London, Earth Science & Engineering, London, United Kingdom, Rouzbeh G Moghanloo, The University of Oklahoma, Petroleum & Geological Engineering, Norman, United States and Bolivia Vega, Stanford University, Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, United States
Chairs:  Branko Bijeljic, Imperial College London, Earth Science & Engineering, London, United Kingdom and Dr. Behzad Ghanbarian, Kansas State University, Geology, Manhattan, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Soheil Ghanbarzadeh, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
Index Terms:

1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
5104 Fracture and flow [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]
5114 Permeability and porosity [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A Twophase Multirate-Mass Transfer Model for Flow and Transport in Porous Media (Invited) (58712)
Marco Dentz, IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, Jan Tecklenburg, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute of Fluid Mechanics in Civil Engineering, Hannover, Germany, Hanover, Germany, Insa Neuweiler, Leibniz University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany and Jesus Carrera, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), CSIC, c/ Jordi Girona 18, 08034, Barcelona, Spain
Pore-scale studies of interphase mass and heat transfer during two-phase flow in porous media (Invited) (78176)
S. Majid Hassanizadeh, Utrecht University, Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands, Nikolaos Karadimitriou, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Qiulan Zhang, China University of Geosciences Beijing, Beijing, China and Philipp Nuske, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Micro Particle Image Velocimetry (micro-PIV) to Quantify Multiphase Flow In Micromodels (Invited) (69901)
Anthony R Kovscek1, Sophie Roman2, Cyprien Soulaine2 and Hamdi Tchelepi3, (1)Stanford University, Department of Energy Science & Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Stanford University, Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, United States
Disentangling the Complex Pore-Scale Dispersion Process in Natural Porous Media by Means of DNS (60293)
Daniel W Meyer, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Institute of Fluid Dynamics, Zurich, Switzerland and Branko Bijeljic, Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom
Quantification of Single- and Multi-Phase Hydrodynamic Dispersion in Rocks Using Dynamic 3D PET Imaging (79227)
Ronny Pini1, Nicholas T Vandehey2, Jim O'Neil2 and Sally M Benson3, (1)Imperial College London, Department of Chemical Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Stanford University, Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, United States
Development of a Nanofluidic Chip Representative of a Shale Sample (61956)
Saman A Aryana, The University of Wyoming, Department of Chemical Engineering, Laramie, United States, Cynthia M Ross, Stanford University, Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States and Soheil Saraji, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
Using Neutrons to Study Fluid-Rock Interactions in Shales (64598)
Victoria Hart DiStefano1, Joanna McFarlane2, Lawrence M Anovitz3, Alexander D2, Richard E Hale2, Rodney D. Hunt2, Samuel A. Lewis Sr.2, Ken C. Littrell4, Andrew Gregory Stack5, Steve Chipera6, Edmund Perfect1, Hassina Bilheux7, Lindsay Marie Kolbus7 and Philip R. Bingham5, (1)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)ORNL U Tennessee, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Neutron Technologies Division, Oak Ridge, United States, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, (6)Chesapeake Energy, Oklahoma City, OK, United States, (7)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Targeted Delivery by Smart Capsules for Controlling Two-phase Flow in Porous Media (85464)
Jing Fan, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States and David Weitz, Harvard University, Applied Physics, Cambridge, United States

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