H54F:
Multiphase Flow and Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Fractured and/or Deformable Porous Media: From Soil Wetting and Drying to Geologic Carbon Sequestration, Shale Gas, and Unconventional Resources II


Session ID#: 10633

Session Description:
Fluid flow in a porous material is often accompanied by deformation of the solid matrix, which can, in turn, alter transport properties such as porosity and permeability. Modeling flow in fractured media is challenging, due to the permeability contrast between fractures and the host rock, and flow interactions between them. In this session we will discuss the alteration of fluid pathways due to hydrodynamic instabilities (fingering) or mechanical deformation (pore opening or closure), as well as flow and transport modeling complexities due to interaction between fractures and rock matrix. We welcome experimental, theoretical and modeling contributions, including but not limited to the following topics: linking underlying pore-scale physics to macroscopic responses; interaction of the different phases across the interfaces between fractures and host rock; hydromechanical coupling between multiphase flow and solid deformation; and studies of proppant transport and its interaction with fracture flow.
Primary Convener:  Ran Holtzman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
Conveners:  Karl Bandilla, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Joshua A White, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Christopher W MacMinn, University of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science, Oxford, United Kingdom
Chairs:  Ran Holtzman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel, Karl Bandilla, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Joshua A White, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Christopher W MacMinn, University of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science, Oxford, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Ran Holtzman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

Cross-Listed:
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

1832 Groundwater transport [HYDROLOGY]
1835 Hydrogeophysics [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
4435 Emergent phenomena [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Coupled Modeling of Flow, Transport, and Deformation during Hydrodynamically Unstable Displacement in Fractured Rocks (Invited) (65151)
Birendra Jha, University of Southern California, Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Los Angeles, United States and Ruben Juanes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Gas Driven Fracturing of Deformable Porous Media (Invited) (67849)
Bjornar Sandnes, Swansea University, College of Engineering, Cardiff, CF5, United Kingdom and James M Campbell, Swansea University, College of Engineering, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Modeling the Impact of Fracture Growth on Fluid Displacements in Deformable Porous Media (80078)
David Santillán, Technical University of Madrid, Department of Civil Engineering: Hydraulics, Energy and the Environment, Madrid, Spain, Luis Cueto-Felgueroso, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States; Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain and Ruben Juanes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Development of heterogeneity in proppant distribution due to engineered and natural processes during hydraulic fracturing (Invited) (68547)
Joseph Morris1, Pratanu Roy1 and Stuart D. C. Walsh2, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Stone Code Pty. Ltd., Sydney, Australia
Numerical Modeling on Two phase Fluid flow in a Coupled Fracture-Skin-Matrix System (69054)
Renu Valsala Kumari, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India and Suresh Kumar G, Professor, Ocean Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, Chennai, India
Imbibition in multiple continuum representations of fractured porous media: Early and late time behaviour (Invited) (77620)
Florian Doster, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14, United Kingdom, Sebastian Geiger, Delft University of Technology, Geoscience and Engineering, Delft, Netherlands and Rafael March Castaneda Neto, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
A Hybrid Continuum-Discrete Scheme for Simulating CO2 Migration and Trapping in Fractured Sandstone Reservoirs (76275)
Quanlin Zhou1, Jens T Birkholzer2 and Curtis M Oldenburg1, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulation and laboratory-scale experiments of complex flow dynamics in unsaturated fractures (71876)
Jannes Kordilla1, Alexandre M Tartakovsky2, Wenxiao Pan2, Elena Shigorina1, Torsten Noffz1 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

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