Lab on a chip for a low-carbon future

SS Datta, I Battiato, MA Fernø, R Juanes, S Parsa… - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Transitioning our society to a sustainable future, with low or net-zero carbon emissions to the
atmosphere, will require a wide-spread transformation of energy and environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Capillary-dominated imbibition in heterogeneous-wet reservoirs: Mechanisms, characterization, and critical insights

Y Xiao, Z You, Y He, Z Du, J Zheng, L Wang - Geoenergy Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The heterogeneous-wet state within oil and gas reservoirs introduces complex fluid
distribution and flow dynamics, which significantly impacts enhanced oil recovery and geo …

Data-driven connectionist models for performance prediction of low salinity waterflooding in sandstone reservoirs

A Tatar, I Askarova, A Shafiei, M Rayhani - ACS omega, 2021 - ACS Publications
Low salinity waterflooding (LSWF) and its variants also known as smart water or ion tuned
water injection have emerged as promising enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods. LSWF is …

Wettability impacts residual trapping of immiscible fluids during cyclic injection

Z Wang, JM Pereira, E Sauret, Y Gan - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Understanding the hysteretic behaviour in fluid–fluid displacement processes in porous
media is critical in many engineering applications. In this work, we study the quasi-static …

Wettability Alteration of a Thiolene-Based Polymer (NOA81): Surface Characterization and Fabrication Techniques

M Masouminia, K Dalnoki-Veress, CF de Lannoy… - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
Wettability plays a significant role in controlling multiphase flow in porous media for many
industrial applications, including geologic carbon dioxide sequestration, enhanced oil …

Characteristics of fluid–fluid displacement in model mixed-wet porous media: patterns, pressures and scalings

A Irannezhad, BK Primkulov, R Juanes… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
We study numerically the characteristics of fluid–fluid displacement in simple mixed-wet
porous micromodels using a dynamic pore network model. The porous micromodel consists …

Experimental Investigation of the Impact of Mixed Wettability on Pore-Scale Fluid Displacement: A Microfluidic Study

A AlOmier, M Hoecherl, D Cha, S Ayirala… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Understanding rock wettability is crucial across various fields including hydrology,
subsurface fluid storage and extraction, and environmental sciences. In natural subsurface …

Lattice Boltzmann modeling of forced imbibition dynamics in dual-wetted porous media

S Zhang, J Li, RCV Coelho, K Wu, Q Zhu, S Guo… - International Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Forced imbibition dynamics are critical for enhancing recovery rates in reservoirs, as efficient
fluid displacement directly impacts resource extraction. This study employs the Zou-He …

Effective rheology of immiscible two-phase flow in porous media consisting of random mixtures of grains having two types of wetting properties

H Fyhn, S Sinha, A Hansen - Frontiers in Physics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
We consider the effective rheology of immiscible two-phase flow in porous media consisting
of random mixtures of two types of grains having different wetting properties using a dynamic …

Fully coupled implicit hydro-mechanical multiphase flow simulation in deformable porous media using DEM

Q Dai, K Duan, CY Kwok - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.17100, 2024 - arxiv.org
Knowledge of the underlying mechanisms of multiphase flow dynamics in porous media is
crucial for optimizing subsurface engineering applications like geological carbon …