In this study, we develop a lab-on-a-chip approach to study pore-scale salt precipitation dynamics during CO2 sequestration in saline aquifers-a challenge with this carbon management strategy. Three distinct phases-CO2 (gas), brine (liquid), and salt (solid)-are tracked through microfluidic networks matched to the native geological formations. The resulting salt formation dynamics indicate poro...

Many subsurface flow and transport problems of importance today involve coupled non-linear flow, transport, and reaction in media exhibiting complex heterogeneity. In particular, problems involving biological mediation of reactions fall into this class of problems. Recent experimental research has revealed important details about the physical, chemical, and biological mechanisms involved in the...

Mineral precipitation affects the pore structure and thus transport properties of porous media. In this study, we investigated pore-scale dynamics in diffusion controlled systems resulting impacts on effective diffusivity, using a micro-continuum reactive model. Forty two-dimensional structures representing both idealized realistic geometries were simulated with consideration different scenario...

Understanding how geophysical and hydrologic properties are related is a key problem in hydrogeophysical data fusion. Traditionally this link has been made by rock physics investigations that define how pore-scale variations in properties like mineralogy, fluid content, and grain geometry affect the geophysical response of a rock or sediment. As the scale of investigation increases from the lab...

The objective of the present work is to demonstrate the effect of pore structure on fluid transport and electrical properties of homogeneous or dual-porosity pore structures for drainage conditions. To this end, a pore network numerical simulator is used that calculates multiphase flow and electrical properties taking into account the pore structure specificities. The characteristics of the 3-D...

We study the interplay of pore-scale mixing and network-scale advection through heterogeneous porous media, its role for evolution asymptotic behavior hydrodynamic dispersion. In a Lagrangian framework, we identify three fundamental mechanisms that determine large scale particle motion, namely, smoothing intra-pore velocity contrasts, increase tortuosity paths, setting maximum time transitions....

Water injection is used as a widespread IOR/EOR method and promising formation damages (especially mechanical ones) is a crucial challenge in the near-wellbore of injection wells. The magnesium oxide (MgO) NanoParticles (NPs) considered in the article underwater flooding experiment tests to monitor the promising mechanical formation damage (size exclusion) in lab mechanistic scale include m...

[1] Several models for two-phase flow in porous media identify trapping and connectivity of fluids as an important contribution to macroscale hysteresis. This is especially true for hysteresis in relative permeabilities. The trapping models propose trajectories from the initial saturation to the end saturation in various ways and are often based on experiments or pore-network model results for ...

development of pore network models for real porous media requires a detailed understanding of physical processes occurring on the microscopic scale and a complete description of porous media morphology. in this study, the microstructure of porous media has been represented by three dimensional networks of interconnected pores and throats which are designed by an object oriented approach. afterw...