Dynamic Pore‐Scale Dissolution by CO2‐Saturated Brine in Carbonates: Impact of Homogeneous Versus Fractured Versus Vuggy Pore Structure

Y Yang, Y Li, J Yao, S Iglauer, L Luquot… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Limestone pore structure strongly influences dissolution and associated reactive transport.
These effects are critical in limestone diagenesis and but also in engineering operations …

A phase-field moving contact line model with soluble surfactants

G Zhu, J Kou, J Yao, A Li, S Sun - Journal of Computational Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
A phase-field moving contact line model is presented for a two-phase system with soluble
surfactants. With the introduction of some scalar auxiliary variables, the original free energy …

Pore‐scale investigation of methane hydrate dissociation using the lattice Boltzmann method

L Zhang, C Zhang, K Zhang, L Zhang… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Fundamental understanding of pore‐scale methane hydrate dissociation in porous media is
important to evaluate submarine slope stability and potential utilization of methane …

Permeability estimation of regular porous structures: A benchmark for comparison of methods

A Wagner, E Eggenweiler, F Weinhardt, Z Trivedi… - Transport in porous …, 2021 - Springer
The intrinsic permeability is a crucial parameter to characterise and quantify fluid flow
through porous media. However, this parameter is typically uncertain, even if the geometry …

The effect of surface roughness on immiscible displacement using pore scale simulation

L Zhang, C Xu, Y Guo, G Zhu, S Cai, X Wang… - Transport in Porous …, 2021 - Springer
Pore scale immiscible displacement is crucial in oil industry. The surface roughness of throat
is an important factor affecting water–oil interface movement. In this paper, the Navier …

FIB-SEM tomography reveals the nanoscale 3D morphology of virus removal filters

KP Brickey, AL Zydney, ED Gomez - Journal of Membrane Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Virus removal filters are designed to ensure very high levels of removal of viruses and virus-
like particles during bioprocessing, but the performance of some virus removal filters can be …

Multistep Super Resolution Double-U-net (SRDUN) for enhancing the resolution of Berea sandstone images

S Karimpouli, R Kadyrov - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Digital Rock Physics (DRP) has opened a new avenue through the microscale
world of rocks leading to more detailed inferences. However, High Resolution (HR) images …

A pore-scale investigation of residual oil distributions and enhanced oil recovery methods

Y Guo, L Zhang, G Zhu, J Yao, H Sun, W Song, Y Yang… - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Water flooding is an economic method commonly used in secondary recovery, but a large
quantity of crude oil is still trapped in reservoirs after water flooding. A deep understanding …

Different methods of permeability calculation in digital twins of tight sandstones

D Orlov, M Ebadi, E Muravleva, D Volkhonskiy… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of tight hydrocarbon resources has a significant impact on the future of the
energy market. Digital Rock Physics (DRP) is technically recognized as an effective method …

Simulation of liquid flow transport in nanoscale porous media using lattice Boltzmann method

W Wang, H Wang, Y Su, M Tang, J Xu… - Journal of the Taiwan …, 2021 - Elsevier
Clarifying the confined liquid flow in nanoscale porous media is crucial for many science
and engineering applications, such as shale/tight oil recovery. However, most of the …