Quasistatic fluid-fluid displacement in porous media: Invasion-percolation through a wetting transition
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (Canada)
- McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON (Canada)
- Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1612959
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1491954
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0018357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Fluids (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review Fluids (Online); Journal Volume: 3; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-990X
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; Physics; Capillarity; Displacement of immiscible fluids; Imbibition & injection; Interfacial flows; Interfacial phenomena; Microfluidic devices; Saffman-Taylor instability; Wetting
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Primkulov, Bauyrzhan K., Talman, Stephen, Khaleghi, Keivan, Shokri, Alireza Rangriz, Chalaturnyk, Rick, Zhao, Benzhong, MacMinn, Christopher W., and Juanes, Ruben. Quasistatic fluid-fluid displacement in porous media: Invasion-percolation through a wetting transition. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevfluids.3.104001.
Primkulov, Bauyrzhan K., Talman, Stephen, Khaleghi, Keivan, Shokri, Alireza Rangriz, Chalaturnyk, Rick, Zhao, Benzhong, MacMinn, Christopher W., & Juanes, Ruben. Quasistatic fluid-fluid displacement in porous media: Invasion-percolation through a wetting transition. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevfluids.3.104001
Primkulov, Bauyrzhan K., Talman, Stephen, Khaleghi, Keivan, Shokri, Alireza Rangriz, Chalaturnyk, Rick, Zhao, Benzhong, MacMinn, Christopher W., and Juanes, Ruben. Thu .
"Quasistatic fluid-fluid displacement in porous media: Invasion-percolation through a wetting transition". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevfluids.3.104001. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1612959.
@article{osti_1612959,
title = {Quasistatic fluid-fluid displacement in porous media: Invasion-percolation through a wetting transition},
author = {Primkulov, Bauyrzhan K. and Talman, Stephen and Khaleghi, Keivan and Shokri, Alireza Rangriz and Chalaturnyk, Rick and Zhao, Benzhong and MacMinn, Christopher W. and Juanes, Ruben},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevfluids.3.104001},
journal = {Physical Review Fluids (Online)},
number = 10,
volume = 3,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Oct 11 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Thu Oct 11 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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