Random walk methods for modeling hydrodynamic transport in porous and fractured media from pore to reservoir scale

B Noetinger, D Roubinet, A Russian… - Transport in Porous …, 2016 - Springer
Random walk (RW) methods are recurring Monte Carlo methods used to model convective
and diffusive transport in complex heterogeneous media. Many applications can be found …

Insights into non‐Fickian solute transport in carbonates

B Bijeljic, P Mostaghimi, MJ Blunt - Water resources research, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We study and explain the origin of early breakthrough and long tailing plume behavior by
simulating solute transport through 3‐DX‐ray images of six different carbonate rock …

A novel multirate dual-porosity model for improved simulation of fractured and multiporosity reservoirs

S Geiger, M Dentz, I Neuweiler - SPE journal, 2013 - onepetro.org
A major part of the world's remaining oil reserves is in fractured carbonate reservoirs, which
are dual-porosity (fracture-matrix) or multiporosity (fracture/vug/matrix) in nature. Fractured …

Linking structural and transport properties in three‐dimensional fracture networks

JD Hyman, M Dentz, A Hagberg… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate large‐scale particle motion and solute breakthrough in sparse three‐
dimensional discrete fracture networks characterized by power law distributed fracture …

Transport upscaling in heterogeneous aquifers: What physical parameters control memory functions?

M Willmann, J Carrera… - Water Resources …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Power law tailing is often observed in the breakthrough curves (BTCs) of tracer tests. Tailing
is attributed to heterogeneity of aquifer properties and cannot be properly modeled by …

Pore-scale mixing and the evolution of hydrodynamic dispersion in porous media

A Puyguiraud, P Gouze, M Dentz - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We study the interplay of pore-scale mixing and network-scale advection through
heterogeneous porous media, and its role for the evolution and asymptotic behavior of …

Enhanced gas recovery with CO2 sequestration: The effect of medium heterogeneity on the dispersion of supercritical CO2–CH4

A Honari, B Bijeljic, ML Johns, EF May - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Reinjection of CO 2 into producing natural gas reservoirs is considered as a promising
technology to improve gas recovery, mitigate atmospheric emissions and control climate …

Influence of eddies on conservative solute transport through a 2D single self-affine fracture

Z Dou, Z Chen, Z Zhou, J Wang, Y Huang - International Journal of Heat …, 2018 - Elsevier
The solute transport regime is highly dependent upon the heterogeneity of the flow field. In
this study, the influence of eddies on conservative solute transport through a two …

An efficient numerical model for multicomponent compressible flow in fractured porous media

A Zidane, A Firoozabadi - Advances in water resources, 2014 - Elsevier
An efficient and accurate numerical model for multicomponent compressible single-phase
flow in fractured media is presented. The discrete-fracture approach is used to model the …

Non‐Fickian dispersion in porous media explained by heterogeneous microscale matrix diffusion

P Gouze, Y Melean, T Le Borgne… - Water Resources …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Mobile‐immobile mass transfer is widely used to model non‐Fickian dispersion in porous
media. Nevertheless, the memory function, implemented in the sink/source term of the …