H41E:
Recent Advances in Pore-Scale Modeling and Experiments for Flow in Porous Media I


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Session ID#: 62639

Session Description:
Fluid flow and transport in porous media play a fundamental role in a broad range of applications, e.g., unconventional oil/gas recovery, geological CO2 sequestration, and contaminant transport in groundwater and unsaturated zones. The macroscopic behaviors of fluid movement in porous media are largely controlled by flow physics and reactive transport at the pore-scale. Thus, understanding pore-scale physical and chemical processes is critical to improve our capability in controlling and predicting fluid flow and transport in the subsurface. Thanks to the recent advances in experimental (e.g., microfluidics) and computational techniques, much progress has been made towards better elucidating the pore-scale processes and developing more consistent macroscopic descriptions. In this session, we broadly invite contributions on novel experimental, theoretical, and modeling techniques for measuring, visualizing, quantifying, and benchmarking pore-scale processes. Topics include, but not limited to, single/multiphase flow, reactive transport, flow in nanoscale media, interfacial and wettability dynamics, coupling between different processes.
Primary Convener:  Bo Guo, PhD, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, United States
Conveners:  Yashar Mehmani, Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States and Hamdi Tchelepi, Stanford University, Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bo Guo, PhD, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, United States
Chairs:  Bo Guo, PhD, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States and Yashar Mehmani, Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Bo Guo, PhD, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1859 Rocks: physical properties [HYDROLOGY]
1875 Vadose zone [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Advances in Experimental Microfluidics for Improved Pore-Scale Understanding of Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes (Invited) (344865)
Anthony R Kovscek, Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, United States and Wonjin Yun, Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Evaporation-Induced Instability during Dry Gas Injection into Water-Saturated Porous Media (363522)
Ke Xu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Ruben Juanes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Resources Laboratory, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Pore-scale Characterization of Biogenic Gas Formation in Porous Media: The Effect of Gas Production Rate (468978)
Daehyun Kim1, Nariman Mahabadi1, Jaewon Jang2 and Leon A van Paassen1, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
High-resolution temporo-ensemble PIV to resolve pore-scale flow in 3D-printed fractured porous media (389333)
Xiangzhao Kong1, Mehrdad Ahkami2, Thomas Roesgen2 and Martin O Saar3, (1)ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)ETH Zurich, Geothermal Energy and Geofluids, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland
Multiphase Flow of Water and Supercritical CO2 in 2D Circular Porous Micromodels: High-Speed Micro-PIV Measurements Under Reservoir-Relevant Conditions (408433)
Yaofa Li, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, United States, Farzan Kazemifar, California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States, Gianluca Blois, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States and Kenneth T Christensen, University of Notre Dame, Aero. & Mech. Eng. and Civil & Environmental Eng. and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, United States
The effects of pore depth and edge variation on the non-wetting phase entrapment in multilayer micromodels (388373)
Shao-Yiu Hsu, National Taiwan University, Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan, Chia-Wen Tsao, National Central University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Cheng-Ye Yu, NCU National Central University of Taiwan, Jhongli, Taiwan, Liang-Cheng Chang, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Krzysztof Lamorski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Agrophysics, Lublin, Poland, Cezary Sławiński, Institute of Agrophysics Polish Academy of Sciences, Lublin, Poland, Tsung-Yu Lee, NTNU National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan and Yungchia Chiu, Organization Not Listed, Washington, United States
Experimental study of the resonance of nonwetting droplet in constricted capillary tubes (448535)
Wen Deng1, Chao Zeng1, Yandong Zhang2 and Baojun Bai3, (1)Missouri University of Science and Technology, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Rolla, MO, United States, (2)Peking University, Beijing, China, (3)Missouri University of Science and Technology, Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering, Rolla, MO, United States
Immiscible fluid displacement and trapping during a drainage-imbibition cycle in porous carbonate rock imaged by synchrotron X-ray micro-tomography (386129)
Yili Yang1, Ian B Butler2, Florian Fusseis2, Rink van Dijke3, Sebastian Geiger4 and Xianghui Xiao5, (1)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom, (2)University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (3)Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (4)Delft University of Technology, Geoscience and Engineering, Delft, Netherlands, (5)Argonne National Laboratory, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne, IL, United States

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