Pore-scale fluid flow simulation coupling lattice Boltzmann method and pore network model

J Zhao, Y Liu, F Qin, L Fei - Capillarity, 2023 - research-collection.ethz.ch
The lattice Boltzmann method and pore network model are two types of the most popular
pore-scale fluid flow simulation methods. As a direct numerical simulation method, lattice …

Numerical methods to simulate spontaneous imbibition in microscopic pore structures: A review

Y Zhou, W Guan, C Zhao, X Zou, Z He, H Zhao - Capillarity, 2024 - capi.yandypress.com
Spontaneous imbibition, as a fundamental flow phenomenon, is widely utilized in fossil
energy production, carbon dioxide and underground hydrogen storage. With the …

Systematic investigation of corner flow impact in forced imbibition

Y Liu, S Berg, Y Ju, W Wei, J Kou… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Imbibition in porous media plays a crucial role in many engineering and industrial
processes, such as enhanced oil recovery and groundwater contamination remediation …

Counter-current spontaneous imbibition dynamics: Combined effects of wettability, fracture flow, and pore structure

Y Liu, R Zhu, P Yu, J Wang, J Zhao - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Spontaneous imbibition plays a crucial role in various engineering and industrial
applications, with its efficiency significantly influenced by a range of factors. To unravel the …

Effects of grain shape and packing pattern on spontaneous imbibition under different boundary conditions: Pore-scale simulation

Y Liu, M Chen, S Sun, Z Lei, J Zeng, J Cai - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Core-scale spontaneous imbibition experiments and numerical simulations have
demonstrated that the macroscopic imbibition performance is significantly different under …

Energy capillary number reveals regime transition of imbibition in porous media

G Zhu, L Zhang, J Yao - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Imbibition, the process of a wetting fluid displacing a nonwetting one in porous media,
occurs in many natural and industrial processes, such as enhanced oil recovery and …

Experimental study and mechanism analysis of spontaneous imbibition of surfactants in tight oil sandstone

X Zhang, Q Ye, J Deng, W Zhu, W Tian, S Kuang - Capillarity, 2023 - capi.yandypress.com
The process of spontaneous imbibition is the basis of oil recovery from tight oil reservoirs. In
this study, spontaneous imbibition experiments were conducted based on tight oil weakly …

Wetting dynamics of spontaneous imbibition in porous media: From pore scale to darcy scale

CZ Qin, X Wang, M Hefny, J Zhao… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Spontaneous imbibition plays an important role in many subsurface and industrial
applications. Unveiling pore‐scale wetting dynamics, and particularly its upscaling to the …

Numerical studies of spontaneous imbibition in porous media: Model development and pore-scale perspectives

CZ Qin, X Wang, H Zhang, M Hefny, H Jiang… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Spontaneous imbibition is a crucial two-phase flow process in a variety of subsurface and
industrial applications. Due to the lack of an efficient and reliable pore-scale model …