H44F:
Recent Advances in Pore-Scale Modeling and Experiments for Flow in Porous Media III


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Session ID#: 62651

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:

Direct 3D simulation of non-Newtonian fluid flow in a rough fracture (Invited) (343751)
Masa Prodanovic, The University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, United States, Min Zhang, The University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, United States, Maryam Mirabolghasemi, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Jianlin Zhao, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, China
Wettability Control on Multiphase Flow in Porous Media: A Benchmark Study on Current Pore-Scale Modeling Approaches (397869)
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, Benzhong Zhao, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada and Christopher W MacMinn, University of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science, Oxford, United Kingdom
Fingering instability in granular suspensions in fractures (446760)
Arshad Kudrolli1, Rausan Jewel2, Ram C Sharma3 and Benjamin Allen2, (1)Clark University, Worcester, MA, United States, (2)Clark University, Worcester, United States, (3)Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
DEM Modeling of Coupled Multiphase Flow and Granular Mechanics: Wettability Control on Fracture Patterns (372109)
Yue Meng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, Zhibing Yang, State Key Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Fiona Kwok, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong 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
Stochastic Simulation of Colloid Transport under Unfavorable Attachment Conditions by Full Enumeration (434621)
Markus Hilpert, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, Jacqueline Anna Rasmuson, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and William P Johnson, Univ Utah, Salt Lake City, United States
The Impact of Pore-Scale Flow Regimes on Upscaling of Immiscible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media: Theory and Validation (400422)
Davide Picchi, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Ilenia Battiato, Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Pore Network Stitching for Pore-to-Core Upscaling of Two-Phase Flow in Heterogeneous Rocks (440328)
Amir Hossein Kohanpur, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States and Albert J Valocchi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
Upscaling from the pore to the Darcy scale: A representative elementary volume for non-Fickian transport and continuous time random walks (430412)
Alexandre Puyguiraud1,2, Philippe Gouze3 and Marco Dentz1, (1)IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (2)IDAEA - CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (3)Géosciences Montpellier, Montpellier Cedex 05, France

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