chemical flooding, especially alkaline/surfactant/polymer flooding, is of increasing interest due to the world increasing oil demand. this work shows the aspects of using alkaline/surfactant/polymer as an enhanced oil recovery method in the porous media having a high dead-end pore frequency with various dead-end pore parameters (such as opening, depth, aspect ratio, and orientation). using glas...

Transport of emulsions in porous media is relevant to several subsurface applications. Many enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes lead to emulsion formation and as a result conformance originating in the flow of a dispersed phase may arise. In some EOR processes, emulsion is injected directly as a mobility control agent. Modeling the flow of emulsion in porous media is extremely challenging due...

In the brain-cell microenvironment, the movement of ions is by diffusion when there is not any electrical activity in either the cells or the externally applied electric field. In this complex medium, the primary constraints on long-range diffusion are due to the geometrical properties of the medium, especially tortuosity and volume fraction, which are lumped parameters that incorporate local g...

Within the framework of a comprehensive investigation concerning the use of surfactants to enhance the in-situ remediation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) contaminations in the subsurface, SMART (Streamtube Model for Advective and Reactive Transport), a multicomponent transport model, was developed to study the processes (interactions) taking place when surfactants and PAH migrate thr...

The capillary pressure model proposed empirically by Brooks and Corey has been used widely for several decades. However it is not clear why the Brooks-Corey capillary pressure model works so well. In this study, it has been found that the empirical Brooks-Corey capillary pressure model can be derived theoretically from fractal modeling of porous media. Also found was the correlation between the...

In this paper we have developed a model for two dimensional motion of a steady MHD flow through circular pipe which is bounded by a porous medium in presence of applied magnetic field. We have considered Brinkman equation for the flow through porous media using approximate boundary conditions the governing equation have been solved and solution for velocity in both the cases with porous media h...

The permeabilities of microscale fibrous porous media were calculated using the multiple-relaxation-time (MRT) lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). Two models of the microscale fibrous porous media were constructed based on overlapping fibers (simple cubic, body-centered cubic). Arranging the fibers in skew positions yielded two additional models comprising non-overlapping fibers (skewed simple cubi...

In this paper we discuss inverse problems in infiltration. We propose an efficient method for identification of model parameters, e.g., soil parameters for unsaturated porous media. Our concept is strongly based on the finite speed of propagation of the wetness front during the infiltration into a dry region. We determine the unknown parameters from the corresponding ODE system arising from the...

Abstract: We investigate the nature of heat transfer and entropy generation for natural convection in a two-dimensional circular section enclosure. The enclosure is assumed to fill with porous media. The Darcy momentum equation is used to model the porous media. The full governing differential equations are simplified with the Boussinesq approximation and solved by a finite volume method. Where...