Emerging Advances in Modeling for Water Imbibition in Porous Media: A Multiscale Perspective
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 August 2023) | Viewed by 13721
Special Issue Editors
Interests: porous media; nanofluids; EOR; fractal; capillary pressure; imbibition; mutlphase flow in porous media
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2. Department of Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Interests: multiphase flow in porous media; micro-CT; Marangoni spreading; CT scanning; enhanced oil recovery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Water imbibition, a type of capillary-driven flow, is a ubiquitous physical phenomenon in natural and life porous media. The driving mechanism is highly dependent on the structure of the porous network. Water imbibition in porous media has attracted scientific interest in a broad variety of applications encompassing daily commodities and engineered systems at different scales. However, the existence of convoluted pore morphology, different wetting abilities, and interfacial forces pose many scientific complexities and challenges to the imbibition processes at different physical length scales. In this context, gaining an in-depth understanding of the physical principle and mechanism of multiscale imbibition in porous media is of great importance. Over the past few decades, much research has made significant breakthroughs and contributions to our understanding of the fundamentals/challenges of water imbibition in porous domains.
This Special Issue aims to highlight the recent advances on modeling for capillary-driven processes in porous media with a multiscale perspective on numerical and theoretical developments, along with applications to a diverse range of discipline.
Potential topics of interest mainly include, but are not limited to:
- The sub-pore scale picture including surface forces, roughness and (spatial) wettability distribution
- Novel (multi) pore-scale insights into the physics of capillarity – ranging from geometric state variable descriptions to a thermodynamic picture
- Upscaling from small to large scales, including aspects of pore-to-Darcy scale, REV, heterogeneity scales
- Novel modelling approaches including mathematical, numerical and multi-physics aspects
- Deep learning
- Applications
Prof. Dr. Jianchao Cai
Prof. Dr. Steffen Berg
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Imbibition
- Capillarity
- Multiscale
- Wettability
- Porous media
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