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 …

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 …

Relative permeability is a critical parameter characterizing multiphase flow in porous media
and it is strongly dependent on the wettability. In many situations, the porous media are …

Numerous efforts have been devoted to studying heat transfer problems in porous media.
Physics-based models, numerical methods and experiments are commonly adopted to …

Direct pore scale simulations of two-fluid flow on digital rock images provide a promising tool
to understand the role of surface wetting phenomena on flow and transport in geologic …

Due to intermolecular interactions, the oil/water two-phase flow behaviors in shale
nanoporous media are complex and diverse, which cannot be characterized by a …

Non-Darcy flows associated with high Reynolds numbers often occur in the near-wellbore
regions of gas reservoirs or hydraulic fractures and thus should not be ignored. However …

This study characterized and modeled heterogeneous surface wettability in sandstone and
investigated the role of spatial heterogeneity and correlation length of surface wettability on …

Immiscible fluid displacement in porous media occurs in several natural and industrial
processes. For example, during petroleum extraction from porous rock reservoirs, water is …

Multiphase flow in porous media is widely encountered in many scientific and engineering
fields. In this work, Voronoi diagram is used to reconstruct porous structures with low …