State-of-the-art review on the application of microfluidics in biogeotechnology

Y Xiao, B Cao, J Shi, H Wu, X He, C Zhao, J Chu… - Transportation …, 2023 - Elsevier
As a popular research direction in the interdisciplinary fields of bioengineering and
geotechnical engineering, biogeotechnology shows the potential advantages in …

Review of microfluidic devices and imaging techniques for fluid flow study in porous geomaterials

A Jahanbakhsh, KL Wlodarczyk, DP Hand, RRJ Maier… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Understanding transport phenomena and governing mechanisms of different physical and
chemical processes in porous media has been a critical research area for decades …

Lattice Boltzmann simulations of liquid CO2 displacing water in a 2D heterogeneous micromodel at reservoir pressure conditions

Y Chen, Y Li, AJ Valocchi, KT Christensen - Journal of contaminant …, 2018 - Elsevier
We employed the color-fluid lattice Boltzmann multiphase model to simulate liquid CO 2
displacing water documented in experiments in a 2D heterogeneous micromodel at …

A phase-field lattice Boltzmann model for simulating multiphase flows in porous media: Application and comparison to experiments of CO2 sequestration at pore scale

A Fakhari, Y Li, D Bolster, KT Christensen - Advances in water resources, 2018 - Elsevier
We implement a phase-field based lattice-Boltzmann (LB) method for numerical simulation
of multiphase flows in heterogeneous porous media at pore scales with wettability effects …

Prediction of spontaneous imbibition with gravity in porous media micromodels

S Li, H Liu, R Wu, J Cai, G Xi, F Jiang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
In this work, theoretical modelling, quasi-three-dimensional (quasi-3D) simulations and
micromodel experiments are conducted to study spontaneous imbibition with gravity in …

Microfluidic investigation of low-salinity effects during oil recovery: A no-clay and time-dependent mechanism

Y Du, K Xu, L Mejia, P Zhu, MT Balhoff - Spe Journal, 2019 - onepetro.org
We present a study of the low–salinity effect during oil recovery using microfluidics
experiments in an attempt to narrow the gap between pore–scale observations and porous …

A lattice Boltzmann investigation of steady-state fluid distribution, capillary pressure and relative permeability of a porous medium: Effects of fluid and geometrical …

Z Li, S Galindo-Torres, G Yan, A Scheuermann… - Advances in water …, 2018 - Elsevier
Simulations of simultaneous steady-state two-phase flow in the capillary force-dominated
regime were conducted using the state-of-the-art Shan–Chen multi-component lattice …

Microfluidics for porous systems: fabrication, microscopy and applications

A Gerami, Y Alzahid, P Mostaghimi… - Transport in Porous …, 2019 - Springer
No matter how sophisticated the structures are and on what length scale the pore sizes are,
fluid displacement in porous media can be visualized, captured, mimicked and optimized …

Inertial Effects During the Process of Supercritical CO2 Displacing Brine in a Sandstone: Lattice Boltzmann Simulations Based on the Continuum‐Surface‐Force and …

Y Chen, AJ Valocchi, Q Kang… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Inertial effects during the process of supercritical CO2 displacing brine in porous media may
not be negligible according to recent studies. Capturing the inertial effects of the physical …

Exsolution effects in CO2 huff-n-puff enhanced oil recovery: water-Oil-CO2 three phase flow visualization and measurements by micro-PIV in micromodel

H Lu, F Huang, P Jiang, R Xu - International Journal of Greenhouse Gas …, 2021 - Elsevier
CO 2 huff-n-puff is one of the most important methods to enhanced oil recovery, which can
simultaneously improve oil production and achieve CO 2 geological storage. Due to the …