Hydro-dynamic Solute Transport under Two-Phase Flow Conditions.

ABSTRACT: There are abundant examples of natural, engineering and industrial applications, in which "solute transport" and "mixing" in porous media occur under multiphase flow conditions. Current state-of-the-art understanding and modelling of such processes are established based on flawed and non-representative models. Moreover, there is no direct experimental result to show the true hydrodynamics of transport and mixing under multiphase flow conditions while the saturation topology is being kept constant for a number of flow rates. With the use of a custom-made microscope, and under well-controlled flow boundary conditions, we visualized directly the transport of a tracer in a Reservoir-on-Chip (RoC) micromodel filled with two immiscible fluids. This study provides novel insights into the saturati

SUBMITTER: Karadimitriou NK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5529577 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature