H51B:
Persistent Problems in Multiphase Flow and Transport in Porous Media: From Pore- to Continuum-Scale II Posters

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Session ID#: 12789

Session Description:
Predicting multiphase and multicomponent flow and transport processes in Earth’s subsurface remains a grand challenge (e.g., CO2 sequestration, hydrocarbon extraction, contaminant transport). Multiphase flow is often viscously or gravitationally unstable, and mass transfer between fluid phases can result in non-trivial phase behavior. Fickian diffusion, mechanical dispersion, chemical reactions, and formation heterogeneities add further complexity. In addition, it is well documented that conventional continuum-scale models oversimplify important pore-scale fluid displacement and transport processes (e.g., mixing and (bio)-reaction), resulting in 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 necessary information to improve continuum-scale models. We solicit submissions addressing state-of the-art pore-scale visualization techniques, modeling capabilities, and theoretical approaches. We are especially interested in submissions that link pore-scale fluid processes to continuum-scale models and their associated constitutive relationships, as well as alternatives and limitations to conventional continuum-scale models.
Primary Convener:  Mark L Porter, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Florian Doster, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14, United Kingdom, Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez, EAWAG-ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Reza Soltanian, Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States
Chairs:  Florian Doster, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14, United Kingdom and Reza Soltanian, Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Reza Soltanian, Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States
Index Terms:

1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1875 Vadose zone [HYDROLOGY]
1878 Water/energy interactions [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Wettability Effects on Fluid-Fluid Displacement in a Capillary Tube  (125583)
Benzhong Zhao, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Amir A Pahlavan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Luis Cueto-Felgueroso, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Ruben Juanes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Using a Fast X-Ray Microtomography Study to Better Inform Two-Phase Flow Theories (180428)
Douglas Edward Meisenheimer and Dorthe Wildenschild, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Pore-scale structure of a NAPL front during invasion into strongly and weakly water-wetting sands (165779)
Clinton S Willson, Louisiana State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Ian L Molnar, York University, Department of Civil Engineering, Toronto, ON, Canada, Denis M O'Carroll, UNSW Sydney, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sydney, Australia and Jason Gerhard, University of Western Ontario, Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, ON, Canada
Digital Rocks Portal: Preservation, Sharing, Remote Visualization and Automated Analysis of Imaged Datasets (197297)
Masa Prodanovic1, Maria Esteva2, Richard A Ketcham3, Matthew Hanlon4, Mary Pettengill5, Aditi Ranganath4 and Ashwini Venkatesh4, (1)The University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, United States, (2)Research Associate/Data Curator, University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Austin, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (4)University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Austin, TX, United States, (5)University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States
Derivation of the Mechanical Energy Equation in the Homogeneous and Heterogeneous regions of Porous Media (143301)
Francisco J Valdes-Parada1, Didier Lasseux2 and Catherine T. Paéz-García1, (1)Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Ingeniería de Procesos e Hidráulica, Mexico, Mexico, (2)Université Bordeaux, I2M - TREFLE, Talence, Cedex, France
Gas phase trapping and subsequent redistribution in dual-porosity porous media with continuous and discontinuous domains (144738)
Michal Snehota, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic and Jan Sacha, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Irrigation, Drainage and Landscape Engineering, Prague, Czech Republic
Importance of Considering Hysteresis in Macroscopic Models of Two-phase Flow in Porous Media (145436)
Abdullah Cihan1, Jens T Birkholzer2, Luca Trevisan3, Ana Gonzalez-Nicolas Alvarez2 and Tissa H Illangasekare4, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (4)Colorado School of Mines, Department of Civil and & Environmental Engineering, Golden, United States
Development of thermal simulator using DFN model for the carbonate heavy oil reservoir (153647)
Taehun Lee1, Kyungbook Lee2, Hyunsuk Lee1 and Wonsuk Lee2, (1)KIGAM Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, South Korea, (2)KIGAM Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South)
Characterization of the Spatial Distribution of Surface Roughness of Natural Geologic Materials for the Study of Flow at the Sub-Pore Scale (153824)
Shang Yan, Aderonke Adegbule and Tohren C G Kibbey, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
The Effect of Soil Grain Roughness on the Spatial Distribution of Surface Precipitates Formed by Evaporation (154067)
Aderonke Adegbule1, Shang Yan1, Charalambos Papelis2 and Tohren C G Kibbey1, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States
The effects of the geochemical reaction on the physical property change of the reservoir rock at the CO2 sequestration condition (154770)
Minhee Lee1, Jungtaek Kim2, Jeongpil An2, Sookyun Wang3, Seon-Ok Kim3 and Jaeyong Choi4, (1)Pukyong National University, Major of Environmental Geosciences, Division of Earth Environmental System Science, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Pukyong National University, Earth Environmental Sciences, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South), (3)Pukyong National University, Energy Resources Engineering, Busan, South Korea, (4)KIST Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
Bubble fragmentation in a 2D foam flowing through a porous medium (192955)
Yves Meheust, University of Rennes, Geosciences, CNRS, UMR 6118, Rennes Cedex, France, Baudouin Géraud, Géosciences Rennes and Institut de Physique de Rennes, Rennes Cedex, France, Isabelle Cantat, University of Rennes, Institut de Physique de Rennes, UMR CNRS 6251, Rennes, France and Benjamin Dollet, Université de Rennes, Rennes, France
A microfluidic investigation of gas exsolution in glass and shale fracture networks (160846)
Mark L Porter1, Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez2, Aaron Harrison1, Robert Currier1 and Hari Selvi Viswanathan3, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)EAWAG-ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, United States
Pore Structure and Diagenetic Controls on Relative Permeability: Implications for Enhanced Oil Recovery and CO2 Storage (177001)
Joshua Feldman1, Thomas A Dewers2, Jason E Heath1, Martha Cather3 and Peter Mozley4, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (3)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States, (4)New Mexico Tech, Earth and Enviromental Science, Socorro, NM, United States
Modeling Vapor Transport Through Partially Saturated Porous Media at the Pore Scale Using Chemical Potential (164416)
Lynn G Schreyer, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States, Mouadh Addassi, Technical University of Denmark, Civil Engineering, Kgs Lyngby, Denmark, Bjorn Johannesson, Linnaeus University, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Vaxjo, Sweden and Hai Lin, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, United States
Simulation of Multi-Phase Transport Properties of Rock Samples: The Influence of Mixed Wettability (138016)
Jens-Oliver Schwarz1,2, Sven Linden1,3, Juergen Becker1, Christian Wagner1 and Andreas Wiegmann1, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Math2Market GmbH, Research and Development, Kaiserslautern, Germany, (3)Fraunhofer ITWM Institute for Industrial Mathematics, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Pore-Scale Flow Interactions between Water and Supercritical CO2 in a 2D Heterogeneous Micromodel at Reservoir Conditions (165785)
Yu Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Albert J Valocchi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States, Yaofa Li, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, United States and Kenneth T Christensen, University of Notre Dame, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Pore-scale modeling of wettability effects on CO2-brine displacement during geological storage (166076)
Farzad Basirat, Zhibing Yang and Auli P Niemi, Uppsala University, Earth Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Pore-Scale Flow of Water and Liquid CO2 in 2D Heterogeneous Porous Micromodels: an Experimental Investigation at Reservoir Conditions (166859)
Yaofa Li, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, United States, Farzan Kazemifar, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom, Gianluca Blois, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, United States and Kenneth T Christensen, University of Notre Dame, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Pore-Scale Simulation of Multiphase Flow in Porous Micro-Media: Interaction Between Water, Supercritical CO2, and Hydrophilic Solid Substrates at Reservoir Conditions (168103)
Abbas Fakhari, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Yaofa Li, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, United States, Farzan Kazemifar, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Yu Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Diogo Bolster, University of Notre Dame, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Albert J Valocchi, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States and Kenneth T Christensen, University of Notre Dame, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Pore-scale Simulations of Capillary Trapping of CO2 Under Supercritical Conditions (170183)
Yonggen Zhang1, Linnea Andersson2, Anna L Herring3, Dorthe Wildenschild2 and Marcel G Schaap4, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, (4)University of Arizona, Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States
­­Vertically-integrated dual-continuum models for CO2 sequestration in naturally fractured aquifers (174194)
Bo Guo, PhD, Yiheng Tao, Karl Bandilla and Michael A Celia, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
Micro-porous Media with Electrokinetic Control for Manipulating Fluids (176758)
Xuhui Zhou, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, David D. Nolte, Purdue University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Lafayette, United States and 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
Pore-scale observation and 3D simulation of wettability effects on supercritical CO2 – brine immiscible displacement in drainage (162477)
Ran Hu, State Key Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Jiamin Wan, Earth and Environment Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Yifeng Chen, State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
A Micromodel study of fluid entrapment in pore doublet during drainage and imbibition (137581)
Shao-Yiu Hsu, NTU National Taiwan University, Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan, Liang-Cheng Chang, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Department of Civil Engineering, Hsinchu, Taiwan and Chin-Chia Chang, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Comparison of Pore-Network and Lattice Boltzmann Models for Pore-Scale Modeling of Geological Storage of CO2 in Natural Reservoir Rocks (180664)
Amir Hossein Kohanpur1, Yu Chen1, Albert J Valocchi2, John Tudek3 and Dustin Crandall4, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States, (3)National Energy Technology Laboratory Morgantown, Morgantown, WV, United States, (4)National Energy Technology Laboratory Morgantown, Morgantown, United States
Pore-Scale Transport of Strontium During Dynamic Water Content Changes in the Unsaturated Zone (182153)
William Weaver, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Civil Engineering, Las Cruces, NM, United States, Tohren C G Kibbey, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States and Charalambos Papelis, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States
The Impact of Sample Size and Imaging Resolution on Measurement of Fluid-Fluid Interfacial Area via X-ray Microtomography (188455)
Mark L Brusseau1, Juliana Araujo1, Kenneth C Carroll2 and K McDonald1, (1)University of Arizona, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)New Mexico State University Main Campus, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Las Cruces, NM, United States
Investigation of Coupled model of Pore network and Continuum in shale gas (155557)
Gaohui Cao and Mian Lin, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Microstructure Effects on Anisotropy in Permeability and Diffusivity of Berea Sandstone (196892)
Minoru Sato and Mikio Takeda, AIST - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan
Impact of the viscous-capillary force balance on geologic CO2 storage in layered porous media (140598)
Yacine Debbabi, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Matthew Jackson, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Gary Hampson, Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, London, United Kingdom and Pablo Salinas, OpenGoSim, London, United Kingdom

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