Pore-scale modeling of complex transport phenomena in porous media

L Chen, A He, J Zhao, Q Kang, ZY Li… - Progress in Energy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Porous media play important roles in a wide range of scientific and engineering problems.
Recently, with their increasing application in energy conversion and storage devices, such …

Shale gas and non-aqueous fracturing fluids: Opportunities and challenges for supercritical CO2

RS Middleton, JW Carey, RP Currier, JD Hyman… - Applied Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
Hydraulic fracturing of shale formations in the United States has led to a domestic energy
boom. Currently, water is the only fracturing fluid regularly used in commercial shale oil and …

A critical review of the pseudopotential multiphase lattice Boltzmann model: Methods and applications

L Chen, Q Kang, Y Mu, YL He, WQ Tao - … journal of heat and mass transfer, 2014 - Elsevier
This article presents a critical review of the theory and applications of a multiphase model in
the community of the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), the pseudopotential model proposed …

Multiphase lattice Boltzmann simulations for porous media applications: A review

H Liu, Q Kang, CR Leonardi, S Schmieschek… - Computational …, 2016 - Springer
Over the last two decades, lattice Boltzmann methods have become an increasingly popular
tool to compute the flow in complex geometries such as porous media. In addition to single …

Nanoscale simulation of shale transport properties using the lattice Boltzmann method: permeability and diffusivity

L Chen, L Zhang, Q Kang, HS Viswanathan, J Yao… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Porous structures of shales are reconstructed using the markov chain monte carlo (MCMC)
method based on scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of shale samples from …

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

W Wang, Q Xie, 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 …

Pore-scale simulation of liquid CO2 displacement of water using a two-phase lattice Boltzmann model

H Liu, AJ Valocchi, C Werth, Q Kang… - Advances in water …, 2014 - Elsevier
A lattice Boltzmann color-fluid model, which was recently proposed by Liu et al.(2012) based
on a concept of continuum surface force, is improved to simulate immiscible two-phase flows …

Pore-scale simulation of two-phase flow and oxygen reactive transport in gas diffusion layer of proton exchange membrane fuel cells: Effects of nonuniform wettability …

L Guo, L Chen, R Zhang, M Peng, WQ Tao - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Enhancing oxygen transport and reducing water flooding in the gas diffusion layer (GDL) of
proton exchange membrane fuel cells are important for improving cell performance. In this …

Lattice Boltzmann mesoscopic modeling of flow boiling heat transfer processes in a microchannel

C Zhang, L Chen, W Ji, Y Liu, L Liu, WQ Tao - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Microchannel flow boiling has received increasing attention for its high heat dissipation
intensity with a small temperature difference. In the present study, a multi-relaxation-time …

Pore-scale study of dissolution-induced changes in permeability and porosity of porous media

Q Kang, L Chen, AJ Valocchi, HS Viswanathan - Journal of Hydrology, 2014 - Elsevier
We apply a reactive transport lattice Boltzmann model developed in previous studies to
study the dissolution-induced changes in permeability and porosity of two porous media at …