H136
Understanding Pore-Scale Mechanisms of Fluid Flow in Porous Media: Modeling and Experimental Approaches
Session ID#: 79521
Session Description:
Pore-scale mechanisms of fluid flow are fundamental to designing macro-scale applications, such as carbon sequestration, oil recovery, groundwater contamination, and fuel cells. Recent advances in the fundamental understanding of pore-scale transport mechanisms are enabled by the development of numerical simulation and experimental approaches. Upscaled understanding of pore-scale dynamics, however, requires integrated experimental and theoretical methods.
This session highlights contributions addressing numerical modeling and experiments in pore-scale characterization of fluid flow in porous media. Topics may include, but are not limited to: pore-scale visualization of dynamic processes, multiphase flow in pore-scale, solid-fluid interaction (wettability, reactive flow), residual and dissolution trapping mechanisms, pore-scale modeling (e.g. lattice Boltzmann model), and upscaling of model and experimental results from pore to macro scale. New applications based on data analytics and machine learning approaches in this area are also encouraged to submit their abstracts.
Index Terms:
1805 Computational hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1832 Groundwater transport [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener: Sahar Bakhshian, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Conveners: Seyyed Abolfazl Hosseini, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Wen Song, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Primary Liaison: Sahar Bakhshian, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Imaging of Steady-State Intermittent Flow Pathways in a Carbonate Rock with 1 Second Time Resolution (490794)
Catherine Spurin1, Samuel C Krevor2, Martin Julian Blunt2, Steffen Berg3, Branko Bijeljic4, Tom Bultreys5, Maja Rücker1, Gaetano Garfi4, Alessio Scanziani1, Christian M. Schlepütz6 and Vladimir Novak6, (1)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, Earth Science & Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (3)Shell Global Solutions International, Rijswijk, Netherlands, (4)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (5)Ghent University, Geology, Gent, Belgium, (6)Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
Simulation of drainage and imbibition of oil and water in well-sorted and poorly-sorted porous media. (493281)
Fizza Zahid1, Amy L Stuart2 and Jeffrey A Cunningham1, (1)University of South Florida Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States, (2)University of South Florida, Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States
Comprehensive comparison of pore-scale models for multiphase flow in porous media (496811)
Benzhong Zhao, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Christopher W MacMinn, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom and Ruben Juanes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Effect of evolving biofilm structures on modeling the flow in bio-clogged porous media (499503)
Shahab Karimifard1, Christian Elowsky2, Jennifer Paloni3, Xu Li1 and Yusong Li4, (1)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Civil Engineering, Lincoln, NE, United States, (2)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Agronomy and Horticulture, Lincoln, NE, United States, (3)Clemson University, Civil Engineering, Clemson, SC, United States, (4)University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Civil Engineering, Lincoln, NE, United States
Spontaneous Imbibition in Proxy Vuggy Carbonates (503346)
Hasan J. Khan1, Ayaz Mehmani2, Masa Prodanovic1, Dayeed J Khan3 and David A DiCarlo1, (1)The University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, (2)The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (3)Jones Energy, Austin, TX, United States
Enhanced Oil Recovery Using Silica Nanoparticles: Sandpack Flooding Experiments in Sand and a Low Salinity Environment (523484)
Brightin Rex Blanton1, Scott Brame2, Ronald W Falta Jr3, James K. Henderson4, David Ladner1, Hugh Daigle5 and Christophe J G Darnault1, (1)Clemson University, Department of Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Clemson, SC, United States, (2)Clemson University, Environmental Engineering and Earth Science, Clemson, SC, United States, (3)Clemson Univ, Clemson, SC, United States, (4)Clemson University, Clemson, United States, (5)The University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States
Microscale Modeling of Non-Dilute Flow and Transport (543075)
Timothy M Weigand1, Matthew Farthing2 and Cass T Miller1, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Science and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (2)US Army Corps of Engineers, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United States
Inertial Effects in Pore-scale Fluid Displacement in Real Rock Geometries (549548)
Yu Chen1, Qinjun Kang2, Albert J Valocchi3 and Hari Selvi Viswanathan1, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Exploring Wettability Alteration and Contact Angle Hysteresis in Porous Media Multi-Phase Flow Using 3D Imaging (596467)
Dorthe Wildenschild1, Rebecca Paustian1, Diba Behnoudfar2, Douglas Edward Meisenheimer3 and Maria Ines Dragila4, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, (3)Oregon State University, School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States
Continuum Modeling of Multiphase Flow in Porous Media from a Physics-Based Microscopic Theory of Hysteresis (606963)
Amin Amooie1, Zongyu Gu1 and Martin Z Bazant2, (1)MIT, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)MIT, Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA, United States
Experimental investigation of the evolution of 3D pore network geometry during supercritical CO2 injection in a carbonate reservoir, Kevin Dome, Montana (632862)
Colin A Shaw1, Omotayo Omosebi2, Seth Alexander Mangini3, Michael Laase2, Elijah Olusola Adeniyi4 and Lee Spangler5, (1)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (2)Montana State University, Bozeman, United States, (3)Montana State University Bozeman, Bozeman, MT, United States, (4)Montana State University, Department of Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, (5)Montana State University, Energy Research Institute, Bozeman, MT, United States
Interplay between Capillary and Buoyancy Forces During Immiscible Displacement in Heterogeneous Porous Media (632978)
Prasanna Ganesan Krishnamurthy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Timothy A Meckel, Univ. Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and David A DiCarlo, The University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States
