Hydraulic fracturing of unconventional oil/gas shales has changed the energy landscape of
the US Recovery of hydrocarbons from tight, hydraulically fractured shales is a highly …

Accurate prediction of flow behavior in shale matrix is critical for efficient development of
shale gas reservoirs. In these systems, the majority of pores are in the nano-size range. As a …

Phase behavior of confined fluids may deviate significantly from that of the bulk fluid due to
the fluid–wall interactions being a significant portion of all intermolecular interactions under …

Characterizing the pore structures and transport properties of low-permeability shales is
critical for evaluating these formations as potential seals or storage sites for geological CO2 …

Image-based characterization offers a powerful approach to studying geological porous
media at the nanoscale and images are critical to understanding reactive transport …

Accurate representations of slip and transitional flow regimes present a challenge in the
simulation of rarefied gas flow in confined systems with complex geometries. In these …

Despite the advantageous resolution of electron tomography (ET), reconstruction of three-
dimensional (3D) images from multiple two-dimensional (2D) projections presents several …

In this paper, natural convection melting in a square cavity with gradient porous media is
numerically studied at pore-scale level by adopting the lattice Boltzmann method. To …

The nanoscale pores in shale oil and gas are often filled with external nanomaterials to
enhance wellbore stability and improve energy production. And there has been …

Gas transport in shale matrix is complex due to multiple mechanisms and is difficult to be
investigated by macroscopic experiment. For Gas Research Institute (GRI) method, which is …