H41E:
Non-Newtonian Fluids in Subsurface Environments: Rheology, Modeling, and Applications Posters

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Session ID#: 13035

Session Description:
Non-Newtonian fluids exhibit complex rheological properties such as a non-linear relationship between stress and shear rate, a yield stress, or thixotropy. They are used for subsurface applications in a number of varieties: polymer solutions for the remediation of NAPL-polluted aquifers, enhanced oil recovery (EOR), or to investigate subsurface properties; foams for the remediation of vadose zone environments; clay-based drilling muds; suspensions of solid particles for soil remediation or fracking. How their peculiar rheology impacts their flow in porous/fractured media, and how it is beneficial to applications, are still open questions. We welcome contributions based on laboratory experiments, field investigations, or theoretical/numerical studies. Topics may include, among others, rheological studies, characterization of flow behavior through porous and fractured media, impact of the rheology on solute transport, estimation of medium properties, and field applications such as aquifer/soil/vadose zone remediation, EOR, and fracking. Discussions on future modeling and investigation strategies are also encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Yves Meheust, University of Rennes, Geosciences, CNRS, UMR 6118, Rennes Cedex, France
Conveners:  Clément Roques, Géosciences, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France, Vittorio Di Federico, University of Bologna, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering, Bologna, Italy and Lirong Zhong, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Chairs:  Yves Meheust, University of Rennes, Geosciences, CNRS, UMR 6118, Rennes Cedex, France, Clément Roques, Géosciences, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France and Vittorio Di Federico, University of Bologna, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering, Bologna, Italy
OSPA Liaison:  Lirong Zhong, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Index Terms:

1828 Groundwater hydraulics [HYDROLOGY]
1832 Groundwater transport [HYDROLOGY]
1865 Soils [HYDROLOGY]
1875 Vadose zone [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Visualizing Oil Process Dynamics in Porous Media with Micromodels (Invited) (169979)
Sibani Lisa Biswal, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
Deciphering physical properties of preferential flowpaths using non-Newtonian fluids (185829)
Ryan D. Stewart, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences, Blacksburg, United States, Majdi Abou Najm, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon and David E Rupp, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, CEOAS/OSU, Corvallis, OR, United States
Lattice Boltzmann Modeling of Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow in Porous Medium Systems (171824)
Scott Hauswirth1,2, Amanda L Dye3, Pamela B Schultz4, Christopher Bowers3 and Cass T Miller4, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States, (2)California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, United States, (3)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (4)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Science and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Modeling of non-Newtonian Free-Surface and Confined Flow in Porous Media: a Review of Theoretical and Experimental Results for Power-Law Fluids (183150)
Vittorio Di Federico1, Sandro Longo2, Valentina Ciriello3 and Luca Chiapponi2, (1)University of Bologna, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering, Bologna, Italy, (2)University of Parma, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Architettura (DIA), Parma, Italy, (3)Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Chimica, Ambientale e dei Materiali (DICAM), Bologna, Italy
Fiber-Laden Proppant Placement in a Deformable Fracture: Influence of Fracture-Surface Roughness (193998)
Ricardo Medina1, Russell L Detwiler2, Romain Prioul3, Wenyue Xu3 and J. Alberto Ortega4, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)Schlumberger-Doll Research, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Schlumberger Houston, Houston, TX, United States
Scale Effects in the Flow of a Shear-Thinning Fluid in Rough Fractures (158478)
Clément Roques, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Institute of Geology, Zurich, Switzerland, Yves Meheust, Géosciences Rennes, CNRS - University of Rennes, Rennes, France, Tanguy Le Borgne, University of Rennes 1, Géosciences Rennes UMR 6118, Rennes, France and John Steven Selker, Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
Non-Newtonian fluids for pore structure characterization of sand columns (171280)
Majdi R Abou Najm, American University of Beirut, Beirut, 1107, Lebanon, Scott Hauswirth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States; California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, United States and Cass T Miller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Science and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Rheological Properties of Aqueous Colloidal Silica Suspensions Related to Amendment Delivery for Subsurface Remediation (179901)
Shuo Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Process Engineering, Beijing, China, Lirong Zhong, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Guanghe Li, Tsinghua University, School of Environment, Beijing, China

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