H101
Non-Newtonian Fluids and Foams in Porous and Fractured Media: Applications, Modeling, and Experiments at Multiple Scales

Session ID#: 81932

Session Description:
Non-Newtonian fluids and foams have found utility in an increasing number of applications ranging from enhanced oil recovery to groundwater remediation to porous media characterization, in addition to arising in many natural and engineered systems. Non-Newtonian fluids and foams exhibit non-linear stress-shear rate relationships, non-constant viscosities, and other complexities in fluid behavior, complicating the understanding and modeling of their flow in porous and fractured media. This session welcomes submissions related to experimental, theoretical, and computational studies involving the flow of non-Newtonian fluids and foams in fractured and porous media at the pore, continuum, or field scales. Topics may include, among others: use of these materials in remediation of contaminants in groundwater or the vadose zone, reaction and dispersion in non-Newtonian fluids in the subsurface, the use of foams and polymers in resource recovery, including hydraulic fracturing and oil recovery, upscaling methods, rheological studies, and novel applications or modeling approaches.
Index Terms:

1828 Groundwater hydraulics [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1859 Rocks: physical properties [HYDROLOGY]
1875 Vadose zone [HYDROLOGY]


Primary Convener:  Scott Hauswirth, California State University Northridge, Geological Sciences, Northridge, CA, United States
Convener:  Majdi R Abou Najm, University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Scott Hauswirth, California State University Northridge, Geological Sciences, Northridge, CA, United States
 
Effect of microscale non-Newtonian fluid behavior on macroscale phenomena during flow in porous media (518682)
Christopher Bowers, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Cass T Miller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Science and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
 
Rheology and Kinetics of Polymer-enhanced In Situ Chemical Oxidation Applied to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (560894)
Scott Hauswirth1, Sina Sadeghi1, Massis Agop1, Christopher C. Cerda2 and Elyse C Rodman2, (1)California State University Northridge, Geological Sciences, Northridge, CA, United States, (2)California State University Northridge, Biology, Northridge, CA, United States
 
Examining the Dynamic Stability of Pickering Emulsions during Flow through Porous Media (567371)
Daniel Hatchell, Christopher Griffith and Hugh Daigle, University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States
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