Wettability alteration and enhanced oil recovery in carbonate porous media by tuning waterflood chemistry

P Bribiesca Rodriguez, DL Shaffer - Energy & Fuels, 2024 - ACS Publications
Waterflooding for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is described by a multiphase system
consisting of oil, the hosting rock reservoir matrix, and an invading fluid (IF) that is injected …

[HTML][HTML] Pore-scale simulation of miscible viscous fingering with dissolution reaction in porous media

T Lei, KH Luo - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Global climate change is happening but may be mitigated by the technology of geological
carbon dioxide (⁠ CO 2⁠) sequestration. To gain comprehensive insights into this approach …

Elucidating the roles of electrolytes and hydrogen bonding in the dewetting dynamics of the tear film

S Borkar, P Baumli, T Vance, E Sharma, X Shi… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
This study explores the impact of electrostatic interactions and hydrogen bonding on tear
film stability, a crucial factor for ocular surface health. While mucosal and meibomian layers …

A second-order time accurate and fully-decoupled numerical scheme of the Darcy-Newtonian-Nematic model for two-phase complex fluids confined in the Hele-Shaw …

C Chen, X Yang - Journal of Computational Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
We consider the numerical approximation of the binary immiscible mixture of nematic liquid
crystals and viscous Newtonian fluids confined in a Hele-Shaw cell, where the free interface …

Pore-scale viscous fingering as a mechanism for pattern formation–a historical overview, application, and the ways of controlling it

I Cvetkovic, S Milicev - Advances in Physics: X, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Viscous fingering instability, as one of the numerous fluid instabilities and mechanisms of
pattern formation, is very common in different fields of research. First studied experimentally …

Effect of Hele–Shaw cell gap on radial viscous fingering

S Nand, V Sharma, SK Das, SS Padhee, M Mishra - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The flow through a Hele–Shaw cell is an experimental prototype to study the flow through a
porous medium as well as the flow in microfluidic devices. In context with porous medium …

Viscous fingering of miscible annular ring

V Sharma, HB Othman, Y Nagatsu… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Miscible viscous fingering (VF) of the annulus of a more viscous fluid radially displaced by a
less viscous fluid is investigated through both numerical computations and experimental …

[HTML][HTML] Turbulent im**ement jet cleaning of thick viscoplastic layers

H Hassanzadeh, DI Wilson, IA Frigaard… - Journal of Non …, 2024 - Elsevier
An experimental study is conducted on the use of a normally im**ing turbulent water jet
(with the Reynolds number of R e≈ 11 800), for cleaning thick layers of a Newtonian fluid …

The effect of viscosity ratio and Peclet number on miscible viscous fingering in a Hele-Shaw cell: A combined numerical and experimental study

D Keable, A Jones, S Krevor, A Muggeridge… - Transport in Porous …, 2022 - Springer
The results from a series of well characterised, unstable, miscible displacement experiments
in a Hele-Shaw cell with a quarter five-spot source-sink geometry are presented, with …

Unstable miscible displacements in radial flow with chemical reactions

MC Kim, S Pramanik, V Sharma… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The effects of the $ A+ B\rightarrow C $ chemical reaction on miscible viscous fingering in a
radial source flow are analysed using linear stability theory and numerical simulations. This …