Direct Numerical Simulation of Single and Two-Phase Flows at Pore-Scale

Author(s):  
Vladislav Balashov ◽  
E. B. Savenkov
Author(s):  
Mosayeb Shams ◽  
Kamaljit Singh ◽  
Branko Bijeljic ◽  
Martin J. Blunt

AbstractThis study focuses on direct numerical simulation of imbibition, displacement of the non-wetting phase by the wetting phase, through water-wet carbonate rocks. We simulate multiphase flow in a limestone and compare our results with high-resolution synchrotron X-ray images of displacement previously published in the literature by Singh et al. (Sci Rep 7:5192, 2017). We use the results to interpret the observed displacement events that cannot be described using conventional metrics such as pore-to-throat aspect ratio. We show that the complex geometry of porous media can dictate a curvature balance that prevents snap-off from happening in spite of favourable large aspect ratios. We also show that pinned fluid-fluid-solid contact lines can lead to snap-off of small ganglia on pore walls; we propose that this pinning is caused by sub-resolution roughness on scales of less than a micron. Our numerical results show that even in water-wet porous media, we need to allow pinned contacts in place to reproduce experimental results.


2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (13) ◽  
pp. 3474-3484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changfu You ◽  
Xi Wang ◽  
Haiying Qi ◽  
Ruichang Yang ◽  
Delong Xu

2005 ◽  
pp. 41-64
Author(s):  
Sanjoy Banerjee ◽  
Vittorio Badalassi ◽  
Vinay Dwivedi ◽  
Jean-Christophe Nave ◽  
David Hall

2018 ◽  
Vol 330 ◽  
pp. 409-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Fang ◽  
Joseph J. Cambareri ◽  
Cameron S. Brown ◽  
Jinyong Feng ◽  
Andre Gouws ◽  
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