Mixing in porous media: concepts and approaches across scales

M Dentz, JJ Hidalgo, D Lester - Transport in porous media, 2023 - Springer
This review provides an overview of concepts and approaches for the quantification of
passive, non-reactive solute mixing in steady uniform porous media flows across scales …

Multiphase displacement manipulated by micro/nanoparticle suspensions in porous media via microfluidic experiments: From interface science to multiphase flow …

W Lei, X Lu, M Wang - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Multiphase displacement in porous media can be adjusted by micro/nanoparticle
suspensions, which is widespread in many scientific and industrial contexts. Direct …

Perspectives on viscoelastic flow instabilities and elastic turbulence

SS Datta, AM Ardekani, PE Arratia, AN Beris… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Viscoelastic fluids are a common subclass of rheologically complex materials that are
encountered in diverse fields from biology to polymer processing. Often the flows of …

Lab on a chip for a low-carbon future

SS Datta, I Battiato, MA Fernø, R Juanes, S Parsa… - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Transitioning our society to a sustainable future, with low or net-zero carbon emissions to the
atmosphere, will require a wide-spread transformation of energy and environmental …

Stagnation points control chaotic fluctuations in viscoelastic porous media flow

SJ Haward, CC Hopkins, AQ Shen - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 - pnas.org
Viscoelastic flows through porous media become unstable and chaotic beyond critical flow
conditions, impacting widespread industrial and biological processes such as enhanced oil …

Transport of complex and active fluids in porous media

M Kumar, JS Guasto, AM Ardekani - Journal of Rheology, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Complex and active fluids find broad applications in flows through porous materials.
Nontrivial rheology can couple to porous microstructure leading to surprising flow patterns …

Nonlinear microfluidics: device physics, functions, and applications

HM **a, JW Wu, JJ Zheng, J Zhang, ZP Wang - Lab on a Chip, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The microfluidic flow is typically laminar due to the dominant viscous effects. At Reynolds
numbers far below 1 (Re≪ 1), the fluid inertia can be neglected. For the steady flow of …

Elastic turbulence generates anomalous flow resistance in porous media

CA Browne, SS Datta - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
Many energy, environmental, industrial, and microfluidic processes rely on the flow of
polymer solutions through porous media. Unexpectedly, the macroscopic flow resistance …

Disorder suppresses chaos in viscoelastic flows

DM Walkama, N Waisbord, JS Guasto - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
Viscoelastic flows through microstructured geometries transition from steady to time
dependent and chaotic dynamics under critical flow conditions. However, the implications of …

Bistability in the unstable flow of polymer solutions through pore constriction arrays

CA Browne, A Shih, SS Datta - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
Polymer solutions are often injected in porous media for applications such as oil recovery
and groundwater remediation. As the fluid navigates the tortuous pore space, elastic …