Effect of roughness on fluid flow and solute transport in a single fracture: A review of recent developments, current trends, and future research

J Lee, T Babadagli - Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Difficulties encountered in describing fracture flow using classical fluid flow equations has
led to extensive studies of the roughness effect on fracture flow over the past 70 years …

[HTML][HTML] Groundwater flow through fractured rocks and seepage control in geotechnical engineering: Theories and practices

CB Zhou, YF Chen, R Hu, Z Yang - Journal of Rock Mechanics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Groundwater flow through fractured rocks has been recognized as an important issue in
many geotechnical engineering practices. Several key aspects of fundamental mechanisms …

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 …

A computational workflow to study CO2 transport in porous media with irregular grains: Coupling a Fourier series-based approach and CFD

Y Zhou, W Guan, C Zhao, H Hu, Z He, X Zou… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding CO 2 transport in porous media is important for enhanced oil recovery and
CO 2 sequestration. In this study, we aimed to develop a computational workflow to …

Phase diagram of quasi-static immiscible displacement in disordered porous media

R Hu, T Lan, GJ Wei, YF Chen - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
Immiscible displacement in porous media is common in many practical applications. Under
quasi-static conditions, the process is significantly affected by disorder of the porous media …

Pore‐scale visualization and quantification of dissolution in microfluidic rough channels

CX Zhou, R Hu, HW Li, Z Yang… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The dissolution dynamics of rough channels is a fundamental issue involved in widening
fracture channels (cavity evolution), solution mining, and upscaling of dissolution rate …

Pore-scale modeling of water–gas flow in heterogeneous porous media

H Shi, Q Zhu, Z Chen, J Li, D Feng, S Zhang, J Ye… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Water–gas flow in heterogeneous porous media is a ubiquitous natural phenomenon. A
pore-scale investigation can help to understand the mechanisms of water–gas flow. This …

Transitions of dissolution patterns in rough fractures

T Wang, R Hu, Z Yang, CX Zhou… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Key Points We visualize and quantify three distinct dissolution patterns in radial rough
fractures We propose a theoretical model to predict the transitions of dissolution patterns …

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 …

Role of pore‐scale disorder in fluid displacement: Experiments and theoretical model

DS Wu, R Hu, T Lan, YF Chen - Water Resources Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The flow of multiple immiscible fluids in disordered porous media is important in many
natural processes and subsurface applications. The pore‐scale disorder affects the fluid …