Shale gas, although unconventional, is a prospective clean energy source. Shale gas
production is a complex multi-scale process with its spatial size ranging from the nanoscale …

Accurate modeling of gas microflow is crucial for the microfluidic devices in MEMS. Gas
microflows through these devices are often in the slip and transition flow regimes …

Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is a relatively new simulation technique for the modeling of
complex fluid systems and has attracted interest from researchers in computational physics …

The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has experienced tremendous advances and has been
well accepted as a useful method to simulate various fluid behaviors. For computational …

In this paper, a general bounce-back scheme is proposed to implement concentration or
thermal boundary conditions of convection-diffusion equation with the lattice Boltzmann …

The transport behaviors of both single-phase gas and single-phase water at nanoscale
deviate from the predictions of continuum flow theory. The deviation is greater and more …

A better understanding on the multiscale transport of shale gas will further the advancement
of shale gas extraction. Traditional lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) simulations usually …

Water flow in nanoporous structures in shale strongly depends on water‐pore wall
interactions; specifically, water‐pore wall interactions may influence flow more than water …

Fluid mechanics of natural gas in organic-rich shale involves nanoscale phenomena that
could lead to potential non-Darcy effects during gas production. In general, these are low …

The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has experienced tremendous advances and been well
accepted as a popular method for simulating various fluid flow problems in porous media …