Digital rock physics, chemistry, and biology: challenges and prospects of pore-scale modelling approach

S Sadeghnejad, F Enzmann, M Kersten - Applied Geochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon rocks have complicated pore structures with
heterogeneities distributed over various length scales (from nanometre to centimetre or even …

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 …

Multiphase flow modeling in multiscale porous media: An open-source micro-continuum approach

FJ Carrillo, IC Bourg, C Soulaine - Journal of Computational Physics: X, 2020 - Elsevier
A multiphase Darcy-Brinkman approach is proposed to simulate two-phase flow in hybrid
systems containing both solid-free regions and porous matrices. This micro-continuum …

Pore‐Scale Modeling of Coupled CO2 Flow and Dissolution in 3D Porous Media for Geological Carbon Storage

Y Yang, J Wang, J Wang, Y Li, H Sun… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Dissolution trap** is one of the crucial trap** mechanisms for geological carbon storage
in deep saline aquifers. The injected supercritical CO2 (scCO2) flow and dissolution …

Upscaling the porosity–permeability relationship of a microporous carbonate for Darcy-scale flow with machine learning

HP Menke, J Maes, S Geiger - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The permeability of a pore structure is typically described by stochastic representations of its
geometrical attributes (eg pore-size distribution, porosity, coordination number). Database …

Pore-scale simulation of low-salinity waterflooding in mixed-wet systems: effect of corner flow, surface heterogeneity and kinetics of wettability alteration

A Ahmadi-Falavarjani, H Mahani, S Ayatollahi - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The initial wettability state of the candidate oil reservoirs for low-salinity waterflooding
(LSWF) is commonly characterized as mixed-wet. In mixed-wet systems, both the two-phase …

GeoChemFoam: Direct modelling of multiphase reactive transport in real pore geometries with equilibrium reactions

J Maes, HP Menke - Transport in porous media, 2021 - Springer
GeoChemFoam is an open-source OpenFOAM-based toolbox that includes a range of
additional packages that solve various flow processes from multiphase transport with …

Direct numerical simulations of bubble-mediated gas transfer and dissolution in quiescent and turbulent flows

PK Farsoiya, Q Magdelaine, A Antkowiak… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
We perform direct numerical simulations of a gas bubble dissolving in a surrounding liquid.
The bubble volume is reduced due to dissolution of the gas, with the numerical …

Pore-scale simulation of the interplay between wettability, capillary number, and salt dispersion on the efficiency of oil mobilization by low-salinity waterflooding

A Namaee-Ghasemi, S Ayatollahi, H Mahani - SPE Journal, 2021 - onepetro.org
Nonuniform mixing during low-salinity waterflooding (LSWF) is a function of the pore
geometry and flow patterns within the porous system. Salinity-dependent wettability …

The impact of sub-resolution porosity on numerical simulations of multiphase flow

FJ Carrillo, C Soulaine, IC Bourg - Advances in Water Resources, 2022 - Elsevier
Sub-resolution porosity (SRP) is a ubiquitous, yet often ignored, feature in Digital Rock
Physics. It embodies the trade-off between image resolution and field-of-view, and it is a …