Lucas–Washburn equation-based modeling of capillary-driven flow in porous systems

J Cai, T Jin, J Kou, S Zou, J Xiao, Q Meng - Langmuir, 2021 - ACS Publications
Fluid flow in porous systems driven by capillary pressure is one of the most ubiquitous
phenomena in nature and industry, including petroleum and hydraulic engineering as well …

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 …

Wettability and Lenormand's diagram

BK Primkulov, AA Pahlavan, X Fu, B Zhao… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Fluid–fluid displacement in porous media has been viewed through the lens of Lenormand's
phase diagram since the late 1980s. This diagram suggests that the character of the flow is …

A pore-scale investigation of microplastics migration and deposition during unsaturated flow in porous media

H He, T Wu, YF Chen, Z Yang - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastics are ubiquitous in the natural environment and have the potential to endanger
the natural environment, ecology and even human health. A series of microfluidic …

湿润性对孔隙介质两相渗流驱替效率的影响

魏鹳举, 胡冉, 廖震, 陈益峰 - 力学学报, 2021 - lxxb.cstam.org.cn
孔隙介质中多相渗流的驱替效率对二氧化碳封存效率和石油采收率具有决定性影响,
是实际工程调控中的一个关键指标. 湿润性是影响多相渗流驱替模式及其效率的一个重要因素 …

Role of pore‐scale disorder in fluid displacement: Experiments and theoretical model

DS Wu, R Hu, T Lan, YF Chen - Water Resources Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The flow of multiple immiscible fluids in disordered porous media is important in many
natural processes and subsurface applications. The pore‐scale disorder affects the fluid …

Effects of capillary and viscous forces on two-phase fluid displacement in the microfluidic model

K Chen, P Liu, W Wang, Y Chen, B Bate - Energy & Fuels, 2023 - ACS Publications
Immiscible fluid–fluid displacement in porous media is an important phenomenon that
impacts the field of underground energy and environmental engineering, such as enhanced …

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 effect on the invasion patterns during immiscible displacement in heterogeneous porous media under dynamic conditions: A numerical study

TR Zakirov, MG Khramchenkov - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the wettability effect on the characteristics of two-phase immiscible
flows in porous media at different capillary numbers. This issue presents both applied results …

Fingering crossover and enhanced oil recovery mechanism of water-alternating-CO2 injection

L He, S Ren, H Zhang - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Combined with strengths of water and CO 2 flooding, water-alternating-CO 2 (WAG)
injection stabilizes displacement front and suppresses viscous fingering. Optimal injection …