H42E:
Recent Advances in Pore-Scale Modeling and Experiments for Flow in Porous Media II


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Session ID#: 62645

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:  Yashar Mehmani, Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, 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:

Transport Phenomena in Complex Porous Media: A Quantitative Characterization based on Differential X-ray imaging, Mercury Porosimetry, and Direct Numerical Simulation (450263)
Branko Bijeljic1, Ali Q Raeini2, Qingyang Lin2 and Martin Julian Blunt2, (1)Imperial College London, Earth Science & Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, Earth Science & Engineering, London, United Kingdom
Three-Dimensional Printed Models of Pore-Scale Networks for Colloid Transport Investigation (398640)
Janis Patino, University of California Davis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, CA, United States, Veronica L Morales, University of California Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, CA, United States and Alejandro Perez, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Prediction and Explanation of Changes in Rock Properties by Modeling Rock Dissolution and Morphological Transformations in Micro-CT Images (465186)
Juan Pablo Daza, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, Amos M Nur, Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States and Gary Mavko, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Transport properties of clay-rich fine-grained sedimentary rocks from large scale Molecular Dynamics simulations (452096)
Thomas Underwood, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States and Ian C Bourg, Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
Lattice Boltzmann Modeling of Gas Adsorption and Desorption in Shale Matrix (436535)
Rui Xu1, Masa Prodanovic2, Christopher James Landry1 and James E McClure3, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)The University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, (3)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States
A Multi-Scale Computational Fluid Dynamics Approach for Simulating Multi-Phase Flow in Deformable Porous Media (411791)
Francisco Jose Carrillo, Princeton University, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton, United States and Ian C Bourg, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
Non-Darcy Flow Effects in Shale Field Development and Boreholes: Insight from CAM Nano-pore Models (352113)
Ruud Weijermars, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States and Aadi Khanal, Texas A&M University College Station, Petroleum Engineering, College Station, TX, United States

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