Pore-Scale Characterization of Organic Immiscible-Liquid Morphology in Natural Porous Media Using Synchrotron X-ray Microtomography

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (21) ◽  
pp. 8403-8410 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Schnaar ◽  
M. L. Brusseau
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2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 475-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph H. Arns ◽  
Fabrice Bauget ◽  
Ajay Limaye ◽  
Arthur Sakellariou ◽  
Timothy Senden ◽  
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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.


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G.B. Stephenson ◽  
P.H. Fuoss ◽  
F.J. Lamelas ◽  
S. Brennan ◽  
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pp. 254-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuefeng Liu ◽  
Jianfu Wang ◽  
Lin Ge ◽  
Falong Hu ◽  
Chaoliu Li ◽  
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Vol 208 ◽  
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