Pore-scale simulation of multiphase flow and reactive transport processes involved in geologic carbon sequestration

W Wang, Q **e, S An, S Bakhshian, Q Kang… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Multiphase flow and reactive transport are two essential physicochemical processes that
govern the effectiveness of geological carbon sequestration (GCS). The interaction and …

Simulation of mineral dissolution at the pore scale with evolving fluid-solid interfaces: Review of approaches and benchmark problem set

S Molins, C Soulaine, NI Prasianakis, A Abbasi… - Computational …, 2021 - Springer
This manuscript presents a benchmark problem for the simulation of single-phase flow,
reactive transport, and solid geometry evolution at the pore scale. The problem is organized …

Role of heterogeneous surface wettability on dynamic immiscible displacement, capillary pressure, and relative permeability in a CO2-water-rock system

R Guo, L Dalton, D Crandall, J McClure, H Wang… - Advances in Water …, 2022 - Elsevier
Surface wettability is one of the major factors that regulate immiscible fluid displacement in
porous media. However, the role of pore-scale wettability heterogeneity on dynamic …

Multiscale storage and transport modeling in unconventional shale gas: A review

C Afagwu, MA Mahmoud, S Alafnan, S Patil - Journal of Petroleum Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Several studies have been performed to model the storage and transport in organic matter
present in shale gas. However, the unconventional formation does not only contain organic …

[HTML][HTML] Wetting boundary condition for the color-gradient lattice Boltzmann method: Validation with analytical and experimental data

T Akai, B Bijeljic, MJ Blunt - Advances in Water Resources, 2018 - Elsevier
In the color gradient lattice Boltzmann model (CG-LBM), a fictitious-density wetting boundary
condition has been widely used because of its ease of implementation. However, as we …

Modeling oil recovery in mixed-wet rocks: pore-scale comparison between experiment and simulation

T Akai, AM Alhammadi, MJ Blunt, B Bijeljic - Transport in Porous Media, 2019 - Springer
To examine the need to incorporate in situ wettability measurements in direct numerical
simulations, we compare waterflooding experiments in a mixed-wet carbonate from a …

Direct simulation of pore-scale two-phase visco-capillary flow on large digital rock images using a phase-field lattice Boltzmann method on general-purpose graphics …

FO Alpak, I Zacharoudiou, S Berg, J Dietderich… - Computational …, 2019 - Springer
We describe the underlying mathematics, validation, and applications of a novel Helmholtz
free-energy—minimizing phase-field model solved within the framework of the lattice …

Prediction of fluid topology and relative permeability in imbibition in sandstone rock by direct numerical simulation

FO Alpak, S Berg, I Zacharoudiou - Advances in Water Resources, 2018 - Elsevier
Pore-to-Darcy scale upscaling of multiphase flow is one of the major unresolved problems in
many fields of porous media research. While this problem involves very fundamental …

[HTML][HTML] Forced imbibition and uncertainty modeling using the morphological method

P Arnold, M Dragovits, S Linden, C Hinz… - Advances in Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
The morphological approach is a computationally attractive method for calculating relative
permeability and capillary pressure saturation functions. In the corresponding workflow …

Suitability of body force model for pressure-difference driven flow in porous media

G Yang, M Wang - Computers & Fluids, 2023 - Elsevier
Pore-scale direct numerical simulation is an important tool for studying the flow of porous
media nowadays. This work validates the suitability of body force model for simulating …