The influence of boundaries on gravity currents and thin films: drainage, confinement, convergence, and deformation effects

Z Zheng, HA Stone - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Thin film flows, whether driven by gravity, surface tension, or the relaxation of elastic
boundaries, occur in many natural and industrial processes. Applications span problems of …

Exact solutions for gravity-segregated flows in porous media

P Bedrikovetsky, S Borazjani - Mathematics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The review is devoted to exact analytical solutions for quasi-2D gravity segregated flows or
gravity currents in subterranean porous formations. The problems under consideration are …

Multiscale random pore network modeling of oil-water two-phase slip flow in shale matrix

R Cui, Q Feng, H Chen, W Zhang, S Wang - Journal of Petroleum Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The large-scale hydraulic fracturing technology is commonly employed to significantly
improve oil recovery in shale. An exceptional phenomenon from many field tests is worthy of …

Buoyant fluid injections at high viscosity contrasts in an inclined closed-end pipe

S Akbari, SM Taghavi - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
This paper studies the buoyant miscible injection of a high-viscosity fluid in a pipe filled with
a low-viscosity fluid. The injection is carried out via an eccentric inner pipe inside an inclined …

A working model for estimating CO2-induced uplift of cap rocks under different flow regimes in CO2 sequestration

E Gravanis, E Sarris - Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work we study the deflections of an impermeable caprock in the various flow regimes
of the plume evolution in the CO 2 sequestration problem. The pressure distributions …

Experimental investigations on spreading and displacement of fluid plumes around an injection well in a contaminated aquifer

Z Du, J Chen, S Ke, Q Xu, Z Wang - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract de concentration of the injected fluid decays smoothly around the location of the
corresponding sharp interface, which is beyond the theoretical range. This concentration …

Dynamic interaction of gravity currents in a confined porous layer

K Yang, Z Zheng - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
Dynamic interaction of gravity currents in a confined porous layer Page 1 J. Fluid Mech. (2024),
vol. 979, A52, doi:10.1017/jfm.2023.1075 Dynamic interaction of gravity currents in a confined …

A hybrid multiscale framework coupling multilayer dynamic reconstruction and full-dimensional models for CO2 storage in deep saline aquifers

T Zheng, B Guo, H Shao - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Numerical modeling of CO 2 injection in the deep saline aquifer is computationally
expensive due to the large spatial and temporal scales. To address the computational …

Flow regime analysis for geologic CO2 sequestration and other subsurface fluid injections

B Guo, Z Zheng, KW Bandilla, MA Celia… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Carbon dioxide (CO 2) injection into a confined saline aquifer may be modeled as an
axisymmetric two-phase flow problem. Assuming the CO 2 and brine segregate quickly in …

A multiscale multilayer vertically integrated model with vertical dynamics for CO2 sequestration in layered geological formations

B Guo, KW Bandilla, JM Nordbotten… - Water Resources …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Efficient computational models are desirable for simulation of large‐scale geological CO2
sequestration. Vertically integrated models, which take advantage of dimension reduction …