Lead Organizer: Chao-Zhong Qin - Chongqing University, China
- Ying Gao - Shell, The Netherlands
- Li Chen - Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
- Masa Prodanovic - The University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Yu Jing - University of New South Wales, Australia
- Hassan Mahani - Sharif University of Technology, Iran
- Saman Aryana - University of Wyoming, USA
- Hossein Hejazi - University of Calgary, Canada
- Rui Wu - Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Multiphase flow in porous media is significant to many applications ranging from: subsurface and near-surface flow processes, that are operative in petroleum engineering, carbon storage and utilization, remediation of soil contamination, soil physics and hydrogeology. To applications in material science, such as membranes and fuel cells. In all these applications, it is often desirable to establish relationships between microstructural and surface properties of the media, fluid properties, and Darcy scale effective properties. Much of the past research has focused on description of multiphase flow behavior at the Darcy scale, with purely phenomenological links to microscopic system properties. Translating the various physics that dominate transport at each scale across the range of scales remains a significant challenge.
Thanks to progress in imaging and numerical modelling in the past decade, our understanding of the physics of transport at the pore and meso-scale has improved tremendously. The purpose of this minisymposium is to provide forum to share and explore recent insights into multiphase displacement physics through experiments, modelling and theory development. Examples of potential topics of interest include the following.
• Characterization of transport across length and time scales, ranging from pore to Darcy scale. Applications include, remediation of contaminated soils and aquifers or geological storage of CO2 as part of carbon capture utilization and storage operations.
• Exploration of the basis set of REV variables needed for thermodynamic integration across scales.
• Development of frameworks for upscaling (nano-scale to pore-scale, pore-scale to Darcy-scale). Frameworks may include reactive transport, geomechanics and/or multiphase multicomponent flows.
• Descriptions and applications of flexible materials, complex / non-Newtonian fluids, and spatially heterogeneous wettability conditions.
• Applications to model and investigate spatially heterogeneous wettability conditions.
• Applications involving complex / non-Newtonian fluids.
• Investigation of pore-scale physics and upscaling of dynamic capillary effects.
• Studying the effects of sub-pore and pore-scale scale spatial heterogeneity and complex micro-structure that influence macro-scale, multiphase flows.
Solicited Speakers:
- Cyprien Soulaine - CNRS, France
- Jianlin Zhao - China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China
- Catherine Spurin - Stanford University, USA
- Sidian Chen - Stanford University, USA
