Chemical and reactive transport processes associated with hydraulic fracturing of unconventional oil/gas shales

AD Jew, JL Druhan, M Ihme, AR Kovscek… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
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 …

Striving to translate shale physics across ten orders of magnitude: What have we learned?

Y Mehmani, T Anderson, Y Wang, SA Aryana… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Shales will play an important role in the successful transition of energy from fossil-based
resources to renewables in the coming decades. Aside from being a significant source of …

Pore-scale imaging and modelling of reactive flow in evolving porous media: Tracking the dynamics of the fluid–rock interface

C Noiriel, C Soulaine - Transport in porous media, 2021 - Springer
Fluid–mineral and fluid–rock interfaces are key parameters controlling the reactivity and fate
of fluids in reservoir rocks and aquifers. The interface dynamics through space and time …

Multiscale approaches in reactive transport modeling

S Molins, P Knabner - Reviews in mineralogy and …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The field of reactive transport lies at the intersection of several disciplines in the Earth and
Environmental sciences, including hydrology, geochemistry, biology and geology. The …

Investigation of coupled processes in fractures and the bordering matrix via a micro‐continuum reactive transport model

Q Zhang, H Deng, Y Dong, S Molins… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In multi‐mineral fractured rocks, the altered porous layer on the fracture surface resulting
from preferential dissolution of the fast‐reacting minerals can have profound impacts on …

The impact of pore‐scale flow regimes on upscaling of immiscible two‐phase flow in porous media

D Picchi, I Battiato - Water resources research, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Empirical or theoretical extensions of Darcy's law for immiscible two‐phase flow have shown
significant limitations in properly modeling the flow at the continuum scale. We tackle this …

Multi-scale model of reactive transport in fractured media: diffusion limitations on rates

S Molins, D Trebotich, B Arora, CI Steefel… - Transport in Porous …, 2019 - Springer
Reactive transport in fractured media is conceptualized as a multi-scale problem that
couples a pore-scale component, which comprises Navier–Stokes flow, multi-component …

Multiscale modeling for food drying: State of the art

Z Welsh, MJ Simpson, MIH Khan… - … reviews in food science …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Plant‐based food materials are mostly porous in nature and heterogeneous in structure with
huge diversity in cellular orientation. Different cellular environments of plant‐based food …

Recent progress in multi‐scale modeling and simulation of flow and solute transport in porous media

X Yang, H Sun, Y Yang, Y Liu… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The heterogeneity and multi‐scale characteristics of porous media (such as soil aquifers)
bring a series of uncertainties in studying flow and solute transport. In particular, the …

High order ghost-cell immersed boundary method for generalized boundary conditions

M Yousefzadeh, I Battiato - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2019 - Elsevier
Flow and reactive transport problems in engineering, medical and environmental
applications often involve complex geometries. Grid based methods (eg finite volume, finite …