InterPore2018 New Orleans

Session

Parallel 7-D

Parallel 7-D

16 May 2018, 11:15

New Orleans

799. The Control of Wettability for a Micror-Fluidic Channel using electrokinetic Technique and its Effect on Externally Measured Pressures

Xuhui Zhou (Purdue University)

16/05/2018, 11:17

MS 1.10: Visualizing and understanding multiphase flow through microfluidic and micromodel devices

Oral 20 Minutes

The hysteretic relationship between capillary pressure (Pc) on saturation (S) has been shown to be a projection of a higher-dimensional surface that depends on interfacial area per volume (IAV) as the additional state variable. Most studies that validate the capillary-pressure–saturation-IAV relationship are performed on 2D micro-models or cores where scanning is performed in pressure and not...

887. Wetting, disorder, and pattern formation

Amir Pahlavan (MIT)

16/05/2018, 11:35

MS 1.10: Visualizing and understanding multiphase flow through microfluidic and micromodel devices

Oral 20 Minutes

In their seminal work, Saffman and Taylor showed that the displacement of a more viscous fluid by a less viscous one in a Hele-Shaw cell, as an analogue porous medium, leads to an interfacial instability. This description, however, neglects the inherent disorder in porous media, as well as the non-hydrodynamic interactions between the fluids with the solid surfaces. Here, we revisit the...

330. Pore-scale Investigation of Solvent Based Bitumen Recovery

ZhenBang Qi (University of Toronto Sinton Lab)

16/05/2018, 11:53

MS 1.10: Visualizing and understanding multiphase flow through microfluidic and micromodel devices

Oral 20 Minutes

Current thermal methods for bitumen recovery are effective but require both environmental and economic performance improvements. Solvent based recovery method is an alternative to steam injection that has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with recovery. However, the pore-scale behavior of the solvent-bitumen system is very complex and poorly characterized to date. In...

398. Connecting microfluidics experiments and pore network modeling in understanding multiphase flows in porous media

Ms Min-Kyung Jeon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST))

16/05/2018, 12:11

MS 1.10: Visualizing and understanding multiphase flow through microfluidic and micromodel devices

Oral 20 Minutes

In an effort in evaluating the effectiveness of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques and geologic carbon storage (GCS), significant interest is recently growing in using microfluidic experiments. On the other hand, because solving the Navier-Stokes equation at complex pore geometry of natural porous media requires extensive computational resource and time, simulation techniques in simplified...