Quasistatic fluid-fluid displacement in porous media: Invasion-percolation through a wetting transition

Primkulov, Bauyrzhan K.; Talman, Stephen; Khaleghi, Keivan; Shokri, Alireza Rangriz; Chalaturnyk, Rick; Zhao, Benzhong; MacMinn, Christopher W.; Juanes, Ruben

doi:10.1103/physrevfluids.3.104001

Title: Quasistatic fluid-fluid displacement in porous media: Invasion-percolation through a wetting transition

Journal Article · 10 October 2018 · Physical Review Fluids (Online)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevfluids.3.104001 · OSTI ID:1612959

Primkulov, Bauyrzhan K. ^[1]; Talman, Stephen ^[2]; Khaleghi, Keivan ^[2]; Shokri, Alireza Rangriz ^[2]; Chalaturnyk, Rick ^[2]; Zhao, Benzhong ^[3]; MacMinn, Christopher W. ^[4]; Juanes, Ruben ^[5]

Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); DOE/OSTI
Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (Canada)
McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON (Canada)
Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

We study the influence of wettability on the morphology of fluid-fluid displacement through analog porous media in the limit of vanishing flow rates. We introduce an invasion-percolation model that considers cooperative pore filling and corner-flow mechanisms and captures interface motion at the pore scale for all quasistatic flow regimes between strong drainage and strong imbibition. We validate the method against recent experimental observations of wetting transition in microfluidic cells patterned with circular posts and we use it to explore the sensitivity of fluid invasion to wettability heterogeneity, post spacing, and post height. Furthermore, our model therefore extends the Cieplak-Robbins description of quasistatic fluid invasion by reproducing the wetting transition in strong imbibition, a feature that requires incorporating three-dimensional effects.

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Research Organization:: Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0018357

OSTI ID:: 1612959

Journal Information:: Physical Review Fluids (Online), Journal Name: Physical Review Fluids (Online) Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 3; ISSN 2469-990X

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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