Physicochemical hydrodynamics of droplets out of equilibrium

D Lohse, X Zhang - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Droplets abound in nature and technology. In general, they are multicomponent, and, when
out of equilibrium, have gradients in concentration, implying flow and mass transport …

Experimental and computational advances on the study of viscous fingering: an umbrella review

A Pinilla, M Asuaje, N Ratkovich - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
During the production of heavy oil reservoirs, the movement of the fluids, namely oil and
water, significantly affects the production rates. This movement is influenced by the mobility …

[HTML][HTML] Pore-scale simulation of miscible viscous fingering with dissolution reaction in porous media

T Lei, KH Luo - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Global climate change is happening but may be mitigated by the technology of geological
carbon dioxide (⁠ CO 2⁠) sequestration. To gain comprehensive insights into this approach …

Rayleigh-Taylor instability: a status review of experimental designs and measurement diagnostics

A Banerjee - Journal of Fluids Engineering, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The focus of experiments and the sophistication of diagnostics employed in Rayleigh-Taylor
instability (RTI) induced mixing studies have evolved considerably over the past seven …

Extended classification of the buoyancy-driven flows induced by a neutralization reaction in miscible fluids. Part 1. Experimental study

AI Mizev, EA Mosheva, DA Bratsun - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
The buoyancy-driven instabilities triggered by neutralization reaction were studied
experimentally in a miscible two-layer system placed in a vertically oriented Hele-Shaw cell …

Extended classification of the buoyancy-driven flows induced by a neutralization reaction in miscible fluids. Part 2. Theoretical study

DA Bratsun, AI Mizev, EA Mosheva - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
The buoyancy-driven chemoconvection induced by a neutralization reaction is theoretically
studied for a system consisting of nitric acid and sodium hydroxide aqueous solutions …

Vigorous convection in porous media

DR Hewitt - Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The problem of convection in a fluid-saturated porous medium is reviewed with a focus on
'vigorous' convective flow, when the driving buoyancy forces are large relative to any …

Convective mixing in porous media: a review of Darcy, pore-scale and Hele-Shaw studies

M De Paoli - The European Physical Journal E, 2023 - Springer
Convection-driven porous media flows are common in industrial processes and in nature.
The multiscale and multiphase character of these systems and the inherent nonlinear flow …

Scalings of Rayleigh-Taylor instability at large viscosity contrasts in porous media

N Sabet, H Hassanzadeh, A De Wit, J Abedi - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
The scalings of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability are studied numerically for porous media
flows when the denser fluid lying on top of the less dense one is also much more viscous …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of reservoir properties on the dynamics of a migrating current of carbon dioxide

M De Paoli - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Storage of carbon dioxide (CO 2) in saline aquifers is a promising tool to stabilize the
anthropogenic CO 2 emissions. At the reservoir conditions, injected CO 2 is buoyant with …