H41D:
Persistent Problems in Multiphase Flow and Transport in Porous Media: Modeling and Visualization from Pore to Laboratory and Field Scales I Posters


Session ID#: 8535

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 Joaquin Jimenez Martinez, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Joaquin Jimenez Martinez, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 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:

Pore-Scale Heterogeneity in the Mineral Distribution and Reactive Surface Area of Porous Rocks (59111)
Peter Ern Pin Lai and Samuel C Krevor, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom
Laboratory experiments and numerical modelling of CO2-rich brine injection through sandstone samples: Role of flow rate, brine composition, mixing and spreading effects (64346)
Linda Luquot1, Philippe Gouze2, Joaquim soler Sagarra1, Maarten Saaltink3, Laura Martinez-Perez1,3 and Jesus Carrera4, (1)IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (2)University of Montpellier II, Montpellier Cedex 05, France, (3)UPC - CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (4)Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), CSIC, c/ Jordi Girona 18, 08034, Barcelona, Spain
Dynamics of two-phase transport properties in reacting porous media (80331)
Amir Raoof, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands and Martinus Van Genuchten, UFRJ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Reservoir-Condition Pore-Scale Imaging of Reaction in Carbonates using Synchrotron Fast Tomography (72883)
Hannah P Menke1, Matthew Glynne Andrew2, Branko Bijeljic3 and Martin Julian Blunt3, (1)Imperial College London, Earth Science and Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (3)Imperial College London, Earth Science & Engineering, London, United Kingdom
Curvature Measurement and Tracking of Nonwetting Phase Trapping and Pressure State in Porous Media (63886)
Dorthe Wildenschild, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Tianyi Li, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States and Steffen Schlüter, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Soil Physics, Leipzig, Germany
3D quantification of dynamic fluid-fluid interfaces in porous media with fast x-ray microtomography: A comparison with quasi-equilibrium methods (62971)
Douglas Edward Meisenheimer1, Chris L Brueck2 and Dorthe Wildenschild1, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Exponent, Inc., Environmental and Earth Sciences, Bellevue, United States
Three-Phase Capillary Pressure, Hysteresis and Trapping in a Porous Glass-Bead Column (84901)
Linnea Andersson1, Steffen Schlüter2, Tianyi Li3, Kendra Irene Brown4, Johan Olav Helland5 and Dorthe Wildenschild1, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Soil Physics, Leipzig, Germany, (3)Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, (4)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (5)IRIS, Stavanger, Norway
Pore-scale Evaluation of Immiscible Fluid Characteristics and Displacements: Comparison Between Ambient- and Supercritical-Condition Experimental Studies (84955)
Anna L Herring1, Dorthe Wildenschild2, Linnea Andersson2, Elizabeth Harper3 and Adrian Sheppard4, (1)Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Treadwell and Rollo, Walnut Creek, CA, United States, (4)Australian National University, Applied Mathematics, Canberra, Australia
Pore-scale Simulations of Capillary Trapping of Supercritical CO2 after Multiple Drainage and Imbibition Cycles (71624)
Marcel G Schaap, University of Arizona, Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States
Visualization of Two-Fluid-Phase Flow Dynamics Using Micro-models (80971)
Amanda L Dye, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, James E McClure, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, William G Gray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Laura J Pyrak-Nolte, Purdue University, Department of Physics and Astronomy; Department of Earth, Atomospheric and Planetary Sciences; Lyles School of Civil Engineering, West Lafayette, United States and Cass T Miller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Science and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Thermodynamically Constrained Averaging Theory (TCAT) Two-Phase Flow Model: Derivation, Closure, and Simulation Results (62837)
Timothy M Weigand1, Cass T Miller1, Amanda L Dye2, William G Gray3, James E McClure4 and Iryna Rybak5, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Science and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (2)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (3)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (4)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (5)University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Upscaling momentum and mass transport under Knudsen and binary diffusion gas slip conditions (71619)
Francisco J Valdes-Parada, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Mexico and Didier Lasseux, Université Bordeaux, I2M - TREFLE, Talence, Cedex, France
The Role of Critical Nonwetting Fluid Saturation in Darcy-Based Models of Two-Phase Primary Drainage (76846)
Stephen J Breen, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Steven R Pride, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Michael Manga, University of California, Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States
Complementary Constrains on Component based Multiphase Flow Problems, Should It Be Implemented Locally or Globally? (77934)
Yonghui Huang1, Haibing Shao1 and Olaf Kolditz2, (1)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (2)Helmholtz Center UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
Optical Image Analysis Applied to Pore Network Quantification of Sandstones Under Experimental CO2 Injection (66896)
Edgar Berrezueta1, Luis Gonzalez2, Berta Ordóñez3, Linda Luquot4, Luis Quintana5, Gloria Gallastegui3, Roberto Martínez6, Peter Olaya7 and Daniel Breitner8, (1)CN IGME, CSIC, Oviedo, Spain, (2)IGME, León, Spain, (3)IGME, Oviedo, Spain, (4)IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (5)University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain, (6)IGME, Madrid, Spain, (7)Petro-Amazonas, Guayaquil, Ecuador, (8)O&G Development Kft., Budapest, Hungary
Supercritical CO2-Water Flow in Two-dimensional Porous Micromodels: Micro-PIV Experiments (64549)
Farzan Kazemifar1,2, Gianluca Blois1 and Kenneth T Christensen3,4, (1)University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (2)International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research (I2CNER), Fukuoka, Japan, (3)University of Notre Dame, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (4)Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Investigations of the impact of wettability heterogeneity on trapping and relative permeability using pore-scale simulations (77132)
Fei Jiang, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Pore-scale discretisation limits of multiphase lattice-Boltzmann methods (76106)
Zhe Li1, Jill Middleton1, Trond Varslot2 and Adrian Sheppard1, (1)Australian National University, Applied Mathematics, Canberra, Australia, (2)FEI Lithocon Digital Rock Services, Trondheim, Norway
Wettability control on fluid-fluid displacements in patterned microfluidics (72603)
Benzhong Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, Christopher W MacMinn, University of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science, Oxford, United Kingdom and Ruben Juanes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Viscous fingering with partially miscible fluids (67065)
Prof. Xiaojing Fu1, Luis Cueto-Felgueroso1 and Ruben Juanes2, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Comparison of Interfacial Partitioning Tracer Test and X-ray Microtomography Measurements of Immiscible Fluid-Fluid Interfacial Areas within the Identical System (68379)
Kenneth C Carroll, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Las Cruces, NM, United States, Kieran McDonald, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Mark L. L Brusseau, University of Arizona, Department of Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States
Identification of Novel Fluid-Fluid Interfacial Area in Geologic Media (85142)
Juliana B. Araujo, University of Arizona, Environmental Science Department, Tucson, AZ, United States and Mark L. L Brusseau, University of Arizona, Department of Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States

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