Comprehensive comparison of pore-scale models for multiphase flow in porous media
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- Department of Civil Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L7, Canada,
- Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PJ, United Kingdom,
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139,
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801,
- Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland,
- Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545,
- Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27516,
- Advanced Research Computing, Virginia Polytechnic Institute &, State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061,
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556,
- Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, 30655 Hannover, Germany,
- Department of Experimental Physics, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany,
- Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain,
- Aramco Research Center-Boston, Aramco Services Company, Cambridge, MA 02139,
- Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712,
- Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, United Kingdom,
- Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway,
- Department of Physics Core Facilities, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel,
- Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 7610001, Israel,, Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing, Coventry University, Coventry CV1 2JH, United Kingdom,
- State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China,
- Laboratoire 3SR, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38041 Grenoble, France
Significance The simultaneous flow of multiple fluid phases through a porous solid occurs in many natural and industrial processes. Microscale physical mechanisms such as the relative affinity of the solid for the fluids (i.e., wettability), capillarity, and viscosity combine with pore geometry to produce a wide variety of macroscopic flow patterns. Pore-scale modeling is an essential tool to connect microscale mechanisms with macroscopic patterns, but quantitative comparisons between different models, and with experimental data, are lacking. Here, we perform an unprecedented comparison of state-of-the-art models from 14 leading groups with a recent experimental dataset. The results underscore the challenges of simulating multiphase flows through porous media, highlighting specific areas for further effort in what is already a flourishing field of research.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725; SC0018357
- OSTI ID:
- 1566173
- Journal Information:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Journal Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Journal Issue: 28 Vol. 116; ISSN 0027-8424
- Publisher:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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