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 …

Spontaneous imbibition in tight porous media with different wettability: Pore-scale simulation

W Lin, S Xiong, Y Liu, Y He, S Chu, S Liu - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Spontaneous imbibition is significantly influenced by rock wettability, and it has been
extensively studied in core-based experiments and numerical simulations owing to its …

Review of low salinity waterflooding mechanisms: Wettability alteration and its impact on oil recovery

F Liu, M Wang - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Low salinity waterflooding (LSW) has attracted attention of numerous researchers as a
promising technique for enhanced oil recovery, yet its application is still limited because of …

Hybrid pore-network and lattice-Boltzmann permeability modelling accelerated by machine learning

A Rabbani, M Babaei - Advances in water resources, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, a permeability calculation workflow is presented that couples pore network
modeling (PNM) with a Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) to benefit from the strengths of both …

CO2-oil diffusion, adsorption and miscible flow in nanoporous media from pore-scale perspectives

H Wang, Y Su, W Wang, Z Jin, H Chen - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Enhancing shale/tight oil and sequestering CO 2 by CO 2 huff-n-puff have gained extensive
attentions in recent years. However, the fundamental understanding of CO 2-oil diffusion …

Thermodynamically consistent modelling of two-phase flows with moving contact line and soluble surfactants

G Zhu, J Kou, B Yao, Y Wu, J Yao… - Journal of Fluid …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Droplet dynamics on a solid substrate is significantly influenced by surfactants. It remains a
challenging task to model and simulate the moving contact line dynamics with soluble …

Role of heterogeneous surface wettability on dynamic immiscible displacement, capillary pressure, and relative permeability in a CO2-water-rock system

R Guo, L Dalton, D Crandall, J McClure, H Wang… - Advances in Water …, 2022 - Elsevier
Surface wettability is one of the major factors that regulate immiscible fluid displacement in
porous media. However, the role of pore-scale wettability heterogeneity on dynamic …

Pore-scale characteristics of multiphase flow in heterogeneous porous media using the lattice Boltzmann method

S Bakhshian, SA Hosseini, N Shokri - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
This study provides a pore-scale investigation of two-phase flow dynamics during primary
drainage in a realistic heterogeneous rock sample. Using the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method …

Study of liquid-liquid two-phase flow in hydrophilic nanochannels by molecular simulations and theoretical modeling

S Zhan, Y Su, Z Jin, M Zhang, W Wang, Y Hao… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Multiphase flow in nanoporous media is ubiquitous in geophysics, physical chemistry, and
bioengineering. The underlying mechanisms of two-phase flow are of great importance in …

Numerical simulation of liquid water transport in perforated cracks of microporous layer

R Lin, M Dong, S Lan, M Lou - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
As a kind of clean energy, proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFCs) are expected to
become power source of vehicles. Microporous layer (MPL) enhances the output …