Roughness and wettability of the fracture surface have crucial effects on the two-phase flow
properties in many applications involving fractured rock. The immiscible quasi-static …

The Enskog–Vlasov equation provides a consistent description of the microscopic molecular
interactions for real fluids based on the kinetic and mean-field theories. The fluid flows in …

Flow transport of supercritical fluids (SFs) in nanopores widely occurs in shale and deep
geothermal systems. Pressure is an important parameter for describing SFs, but the effect of …

Engineering flow systems operating under low pressures and/or at the micro/nano scale
generally include a physically adsorbed gas layer next to the surface. In this paper, we …

Rapid declines in unconventional shale production arise from the poorly understood
interplay between gas transport and adsorption processes in microporous organic rock …

Understanding the velocity slip of fluids in channels of molecular length scales is essential
for accurately manipulating their flow in engineering applications, such as in water …

It is well known that the Poiseuille mass flow rate along microchannels shows a stationary
point as the fluid density decreases, referred to as the Knudsen minimum. Surprisingly, if the …

An accurate understanding of nanoscale gas transport mechanism is a fundamental
research concern in many engineering applications, which remains as a research challenge …

This report summarises our recent findings on non-ideal gas flow characteristics in shale
nanopores facilitated by our strongly-inhomogeneous kinetic model. As there are a …

A multi-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) kinetic model is developed to simulate three-
dimensional nonequilibrium flows. By modifying collision term of Boltzmann model equation …