Microfluidic model porous media: Fabrication and applications

A Anbari, HT Chien, SS Datta, W Deng, DA Weitz… - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Complex fluid flow in porous media is ubiquitous in many natural and industrial processes.
Direct visualization of the fluid structure and flow dynamics is critical for understanding and …

A brief review of capillary number and its use in capillary desaturation curves

H Guo, K Song, R Hilfer - Transport in Porous Media, 2022 - Springer
Capillary number, understood as the ratio of viscous force to capillary force, is one of the
most important parameters in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). It continues to attract the interest …

[KÖNYV][B] Handbook of porous media

K Vafai - 2015 - books.google.com
This third edition offers a comprehensive overview of the latest theories on flow, transport,
and heat-exchange processes in porous media. It also details sophisticated porous media …

Organic contaminant transport and fate in the subsurface: Evolution of knowledge and understanding

HI Essaid, BA Bekins… - Water Resources Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Toxic organic contaminants may enter the subsurface as slightly soluble and volatile
nonaqueous phase liquids (NAPLs) or as dissolved solutes resulting in contaminant plumes …

Transient two-phase flow in porous media: a literature review and engineering application in geotechnics

G Yan, Z Li, SA Galindo Torres, A Scheuermann, L Li - Geotechnics, 2022 - mdpi.com
This work reviews the transient two-phase flow in porous media with engineering
applications in Geotechnics. It initially overviews constitutive relationships, conventional …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling the velocity field during Haines jumps in porous media

RT Armstrong, N Evseev, D Koroteev, S Berg - Advances in Water …, 2015 - Elsevier
When nonwetting fluid displaces wetting fluid in a porous rock many rapid pore-scale
displacement events occur. These events are often referred to as Haines jumps and any …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Geo-material microfluidics at reservoir conditions for subsurface energy resource applications

ML Porter, J Jiménez-Martínez, R Martinez… - Lab on a Chip, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Microfluidic investigations of flow and transport in porous and fractured media have the
potential to play a significant role in the development of future subsurface energy resource …

Transition from viscous fingering to capillary fingering: Application of GPU‐based fully implicit dynamic pore network modeling

S An, H Erfani, OE Godinez‐Brizuela… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Immiscible two‐phase flow through porous materials exhibits different invasion patterns
controlled by dynamic conditions, competition between the viscous and capillary forces, and …

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 …