H21G:
Persistent Problems in Multiphase Flow and Transport in Porous Media: From Pore- to Continuum-Scale I Posters

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Session ID#: 25567

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:  Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez, EAWAG Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Department of Water Resources and Drinking Water, Duebendorf, Switzerland; ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Conveners:  Florian Doster, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14, United Kingdom, Meritxell Gran, Stanford University, Department of Energy Resources, Stanford, CA, United States and Anna L Herring, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Chairs:  Florian Doster, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14, United Kingdom, Anna L Herring, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez, EAWAG-ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Meritxell Gran, IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
OSPA Liaison:  Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez, EAWAG-ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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:

Energy-Based Upscaling of Immiscible Two-Phase flow in Porous Media: Flow Regimes and Applicability Conditions. (223500)
Davide Picchi, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Ilenia Battiato, Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Modeling reproducibility of porescale multiphase flow experiments (225198)
Bowen Ling, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Alexandre M Tartakovsky, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Champaign, United States, Jie Bao, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Mart Oostrom, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States and Ilenia Battiato, Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Direct Numerical Simulation of Low Capillary Number Pore Scale Flows  (262130)
Soheil Esmaeilzadeh, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Cyprien Soulaine, Stanford University, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States and Hamdi Tchelepi, Stanford University, Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, United States
Discretization limits of multi-component lattice-Boltzmann methods and implications on the real porous media simulations (266887)
Zhe Li1, Anna L Herring1, Jill Middleton1, Trond Varslot2, James E McClure3 and Adrian Sheppard1, (1)Australian National University, Applied Mathematics, Canberra, Australia, (2)FEI Lithocon Digital Rock Services, Trondheim, Norway, (3)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Direct Numerical Simulations of Dynamic Drainage and Imbibition to Investigate Capillary Pressure-Saturation-Interfacial Area Relation  (286916)
Santosh Konangi, University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati, OH, United States, Nikhil Kumar Palakurthi, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, , University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States, Nikolaos Karadimitriou, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Ken Comer, The Procter and Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH, United States and Urmila Ghia, University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Persistent Homology to describe Solid and Fluid Structures during Multiphase Flow (237737)
Anna L Herring1, Vanessa Robins1, Zhishang Liu2, Ryan Troy Armstrong3 and Adrian Sheppard1, (1)Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, (2)University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, (3)University of New South Wales, Petroleum Engineering, Sydney, Australia
Geometric and topological characterization of porous media: insights from eigenvector centrality (282866)
Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez, EAWAG Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland; ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Christian Negre, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Crossover from capillary fingering to viscous fingering in a rough fracture (213878)
Ran Hu1, Yifeng Chen2 and Dongsheng Wu2, (1)State Key Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, (2)State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
On the effects of capillary hysteresis and pore-scale heterogeneity limiting the migration of buoyant immiscible fluids in a macroscopically homogeneous porous medium (269107)
Abdullah Cihan1, Jens T Birkholzer2, Shibo Wang1 and Tetsu K Tokunaga2, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States
Core analysis of heterogeneous rocks using experimental observations and digital whole core simulation (285119)
Samuel C Krevor1, Samuel James Jackson1 and Simeon Agada2, (1)Imperial College London, Earth Science & Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Experimental Investigation of the Influence of Small Scale Geological Heterogeneity on Capillary Trapping of CO2 Using Engineered Beadpacks (288465)
Prasanna Krishnamurthy1, Luca Trevisan1 and Timothy A Meckel2, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Univ. Texas at Austin, Austin, United States

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