Diffusiophoresis, diffusioosmosis, and microfluidics: surface-flow-driven phenomena in the presence of flow

S Shim - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Diffusiophoresis is the spontaneous motion of particles under a concentration gradient of
solutes. Since the first recognition by Derjaguin and colleagues in 1947 in the form of …

Review of microfluidic devices and imaging techniques for fluid flow study in porous geomaterials

A Jahanbakhsh, KL Wlodarczyk, DP Hand, RRJ Maier… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Understanding transport phenomena and governing mechanisms of different physical and
chemical processes in porous media has been a critical research area for decades …

Pore-scale simulation of remaining oil distribution in 3D porous media affected by wettability and capillarity based on volume of fluid method

Y Yang, S Cai, J Yao, J Zhong, K Zhang, W Song… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Characterizing the trapped phase in porous media is essential for many engineering
applications, such as enhanced oil recovery, nuclear storage, and geological sequestration …

A microfluidic chip for geoelectrical monitoring of critical zone processes

F Rembert, A Stolz, C Soulaine, S Roman - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We miniaturize geoelectrical acquisition using advanced microfabrication technologies to
investigate coupled processes in the critical zone. We focus on the development of the …

Toward reservoir-on-a-chip: rapid performance evaluation of enhanced oil recovery surfactants for carbonate reservoirs using a calcite-coated micromodel

W Yun, S Chang, DA Cogswell, SL Eichmann… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) plays a significant role in improving oil production. Tertiary
EOR, including surfactant flooding, can potentially mobilize residual oil after water flooding …

Effect of multi-scale rough surfaces on oil-phase trap** in fractures: Pore-scale modeling accelerated by wavelet decomposition

Y Zhou, W Guan, Q Sun, X Zou, Z He - Computers and Geotechnics, 2025 - Elsevier
Ignoring the surface roughness of fractures can lead to a significant overestimation of
reservoir recovery. We quantitatively investigated the oil-phase trap** mechanism using …

Quantification of nonlinear multiphase flow in porous media

Y Zhang, B Bijeljic, Y Gao, Q Lin… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We measure the pressure difference during two‐phase flow across a sandstone sample for
a range of injection rates and fractional flows of water, the wetting phase, during an …

[HTML][HTML] Solute transport in unsaturated porous media with spatially correlated disorder

A Saeibehrouzi, R Holtzman, P Denissenko… - Advances in Water …, 2024 - Elsevier
Solute transport in unsaturated porous media is of interest in many engineering and
environmental applications. The interplay between small-scale, local forces and the porous …

Computational microfluidics for geosciences

C Soulaine, J Maes, S Roman - Frontiers in Water, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Computational microfluidics for geosciences is the third leg of the scientific strategy that
includes microfluidic experiments and high-resolution imaging for deciphering coupled …

How interfacial dynamics controls drainage pore-invasion patterns in porous media

M Mansouri-Boroujeni, C Soulaine, M Azaroual… - Advances in Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
Immiscible two-phase flow through porous media is composed of a series of pore invasions;
however, the consequences of pore-scale processes on macroscopic fluid front behavior …