H51L:
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 I Posters


Session ID#: 9751

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:  Karl Bandilla, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States

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:

Impact of normal stress on multiphase flow through rough fractures (59722)
Josimar A Silva1, Peter K. Kang2, Zhibing Yang3, Luis Cueto-Felgueroso1 and Ruben Juanes4, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, United States, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Wettability Control on Hydro-capillary Fracturing in Granular Media (67167)
Mathias Trojer1, Pietro de Anna1 and Ruben Juanes1,2, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Numerical Analysis of Non-Darcy CH4 Flow in Fracture Network of Coal Using Lattice Boltzmann Method (68994)
Qingang Zhang1, Yang Ju1, Jiangtao Zheng1, Wenbo Gong1 and Scientific Team of SKL Seepage Research, (1)China University of Mining Technology, Beijing, China
Investigating the Fate of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid in Shale Gas Formations Through Two-Phase Numerical Modelling of Fluid Injection (79077)
Ryan Edwards1, Florian Doster2, Michael A Celia1 and Karl Bandilla1, (1)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14, United Kingdom
Fracture Permeability and Specific Stiffness Relations Across Varying Fracture Roughness and Aperture Correlation Length (73203)
Lichun Wang, University of Texas at Austin, Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States and M. Bayani Cardenas, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States
Hydromechanical Modeling of Tectonically Driven Groundwater Flow (62347)
Yuqing Zhao, You-Kuan Zhang and Xiuyu Liang, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Vapor Transport in a Porous Smectite Clay: From Normal to Anomalous Diffusion (82552)
Leander Michels1, Yves Meheust2, Mário A.S. Altoé1,3, Henrik Hemmen1, Roosevelt Droppa4, Jon Fossum1 and Geraldo José da Silva3, (1)Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, (2)Université of Rennes, Geosciences, UMR CNRS 6118, Rennes, France, (3)UNB University of Brasilia, Physics, Asa Norte, Brazil, (4)Federal University of ABC, Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Santo André, Brazil
Effect of Pore Pressure on Slip Failure of an Impermeable Fault: A Coupled Micro Hydro-Geomechanical Model (65694)
Zhibing Yang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, United States; Uppsala University, Earth Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden and Ruben Juanes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Visualizing 3D Fracture Morphology in Granular Media (82442)
Marie-Julie Dalbe, MIT, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States and Ruben Juanes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Multiphase Flow Characterization Using Simultaneous High Resolution Neutron and X-Ray Imaging (81171)
Jacob LaManna1, Lawrence M Anovitz2, Daniel Seth Hussey1 and David L Jacobson1, (1)National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, MD, United States, (2)ORNL U Tennessee, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Determination of the Low Permeability of the Rocks from Fracture Zones in Beishan by Incorporating ERT into Infiltration Test (77301)
Yun Song and Zhen Song, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Experimental study of two-phase fluid flow in two different porosity types of sandstone by P-wave velocity and electrical Impedance measurement (85681)
Hiroyuki Honda1, Yasuhiro Mitani2, Keigo Kitamura3, Hiro Ikemi1 and Shinnosuke Takaki1, (1)Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, (2)Kyushu University, Civil Engineering,, Fukuoka, Japan, (3)WPI-I2CNER, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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