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{"title":"Study of imbibition in various geometries using phase field method","authors":"Junfeng Xiao, Youming Luo, Muyuan Niu, Wang Qiang, Wu Jiali, Liu Xiang, Jianfeng Xu","doi":"10.26804/capi.2019.04.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26804/capi.2019.04.01","url":null,"abstract":"Phase field method has been widely utilized to study multiphase flow problems, but has seldom been applied to the study of imbibition. Previous methods used to simulate imbibition, such as moving mesh method, need to specify capillary pressure as a boundary condition a priori, whereas phase field method can calculate capillary pressure automatically for various geometries. Therefore, phase field method would be a versatile tool for the study of imbibition in various geometries. In this paper, phase field method is employed to solve dynamical imbibition problem in various geometries, including straight tube, conical tube and structures in which the topology changes. The variation of the imbibition height with respect to time from phase field simulation is verified with theoretical predictions from Lucas-Washburn law in a straight capillary tube with three gravitational scenarios. In addition, the capillary pressure and velocity field are found to be consistent with Laplace-Young equation and Hagen-Poiseuille equation in various geometries. The applicability and accuracy of the phase field method for the study of imbibition in structures with changing topology are also discussed. Cited as : Xiao, J., Luo, Y., Niu, M., Wang, Q., Wu, J., Liu, X., Xu, J. Study of imbibition in various geometries using phase field method. Capillarity, 2019, 2(4): 57-65, doi: 10.26804/capi.2019.04.01.","PeriodicalId":34047,"journal":{"name":"Capillarity","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80729420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A fractal-based model for soil water characteristic curve over entire range of water content","authors":"Tingxu Jin, Xin Cai, Yin Chen, Shanshan Jiang, Wei Wei","doi":"10.26804/capi.2019.04.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26804/capi.2019.04.02","url":null,"abstract":"Soil water characteristic curve (SWCC) has been an important role in hydraulic engineering, civil engineer and petroleum engineering, etc. Most of SWCC models neglected the film flow in the dry state, so that they cannot accurately describe the SWCC over entire range of water content. In this work, an alternative fractal model is proposed to predict the SWCC over entire range of water content by combining Campbell and Shiozawa model and Tao model. The proposed model can well predict twelve sets of experimental data, and its parameters, including the fractal dimension, the saturated volumetric water content, the matric suction at oven-dry condition, and the air-entry value, accord with theoretical value. The results show that there is a strong linear relationship between volumetric water content and matrix suction in log-log scale for different fractal pore-size distribution of soils. In addition, good agreement is obtained between the experimental data and the model predictions in all of the cases. Cited as : Jin, T., Cai, X., Chen, Y., Jiang, S., Wei, W. A fractal-based model for soil water characteristic curve over entire range of water content. Capillarity, 2019, 2(4): 66-75, doi: 10.26804/capi.2019.04.02.","PeriodicalId":34047,"journal":{"name":"Capillarity","volume":"82 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85532656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A brief review of the phase-field-based lattice Boltzmann method for multiphase flows","authors":"Huili Wang, Xiaolei Yuan, H. Liang, Z. Chai, B. Shi","doi":"10.26804/capi.2019.03.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26804/capi.2019.03.01","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a brief overview of the phase-field-based lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) that is a distinct and efficient numerical algorithm for multiphase flow problems. We first give an introduction to the mathematical theory of phase-field models for multiphase flows, and then present some recent progress on the LBM for the phase-field models which are composed of the classic Navier-Stokes equations and the Cahn-Hilliard or Allen-Cahn equation. Finally, some applications of the phase-field-based LBM are also discussed. Cited as : Wang, H., Yuan, X., Liang, H., Chai, Z., Shi, B. A brief review of the phase-field-based lattice Boltzmann method for multiphase flows. Capillarity, 2019, 2(3): 33-52, doi: 10.26804/capi.2019.03.01.","PeriodicalId":34047,"journal":{"name":"Capillarity","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89639881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A brief review of the correlation between electrical properties and wetting behaviour in porous media","authors":"Shuai Li, S. Hou","doi":"10.26804/capi.2019.03.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26804/capi.2019.03.02","url":null,"abstract":"Wettability is a critical interface property for two-phase flow and reactive transport process in porous media. Wettability alteration is considered as the dominated mechanism for enhanced oil recovery during low salinity waterflooding. The conventional characterization of wettability by contact angle at a single substrate and Amott method at core are limited. In this minireview, we introduce recent improvements in characterization of the electrochemical properties of an interfacial layer formed at the mineral-water interface, and review the application of surface potential (i.e., zeta potential) as an invasive and reliable technique to characterise the wetting behaviour of sample core across different geochemistry conditions. In order to resolve the puzzle of the wettability alteration in an oil-brine-rock system, experimental studies combined with numerical simulations across multiscale and variable geochemistry conditions are required for the future investigation. Cited as : Li, S., Hou, S. A brief review of the correlation between electrical properties and wetting behaviour in porous media. Capillarity, 2019, 2(3): 53-56, doi: 10.26804/capi.2019.03.02.","PeriodicalId":34047,"journal":{"name":"Capillarity","volume":"137 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79737613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spontaneous imbibition in shale: A review of recent advances","authors":"Caoxiong Li, H. Singh, Jianchao Cai","doi":"10.26804/CAPI.2019.02.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26804/CAPI.2019.02.01","url":null,"abstract":"Spontaneous imbibition in shale is commonly observed during and after hydraulic fracturing. This mechanism greatly influences hydrocarbon recovery in shale plays, therefore attracting increasing attention from researchers. The number of related publications is increasing. In this review, we summarize the recent advances in shale spontaneous imbibition from three aspects, namely, conventional spontaneous imbibition models, common experimental methods, and key mechanisms that need to be focused on. The major influencing factors on the shale imbibition process are discussed, and promising future works are presented on the basis of the merits and demerits of the recent studies. This study discusses the mechanisms of shaleliquid interaction, the complexity of multiphase flow in shale plays, and highlights the achievements and challenges in shale imbibition research. Cited as : Li, C., Singh, H., Cai, J. Spontaneous imbibition in shale: A review of recent advances. Capillarity, 2019, 2(2): 17-32, doi: 10.26804/capi.2019.02.01.","PeriodicalId":34047,"journal":{"name":"Capillarity","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84149022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Phase equilibrium calculations in shale gas reservoirs","authors":"Tao Zhang, Yiteng Li, Shuyu Sun","doi":"10.26804/capi.2019.01.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26804/capi.2019.01.02","url":null,"abstract":"Cited as: Zhang, T., Li, Y., Sun, S. Phase equilibrium calculations in shale gas reservoirs. Capillarity, 2019, 2(1): 8-16, doi: 10.26804/capi.2019.01.02. Abstract: Compositional multiphase flow in subsurface porous media is becoming increasingly attractive due to issues related with enhanced oil recovery, CO2 sequestration and the urgent need for development in unconventional oil/gas reservoirs. One key effort to construct the mathematical model governing the compositional flow is to determine the phase compositions of the fluid mixture, and then calculate other related physical properties. In this paper, recent progress on phase equilibrium calculations in unconventional reservoirs has been reviewed and concluded with authors’ own analysis, especially focusing on the special mechanisms involved. Phase equilibrium calculation is the main approach to investigate phase behaviors, which could be conducted using different variable specifications, such as the NPT flash and NVT flash. Recently, diffuse interface models, which have been proved to possess a high consistency with thermodynamic laws, have been introduced in the phase equilibrium calculation, incorporating the realistic equation of state (EOS), e.g. Peng-Robinson EOS. In the NVT flash, the Helmholtz free energy is minimized instead of the Gibbs free energy used in NPT flash, and this thermodynamic state function is decomposed into two terms using the convex-concave splitting technique. A semi-implicit numerical scheme is applied to the dynamic model, which ensures the thermodynamic stability and then preserves the fast convergence property. A positive definite coefficient matrix is designed to meet the Onsager reciprocal principle so as to keep the entropy increasing property in the presence of capillary pressure, which is required by the second law of thermodynamics. The robustness of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated by using two numerical examples, one of which has up to seven components. In the complex fluid mixture, special phenomena could be captured from the global minimum of tangent plane distance functions and the phase envelope. It can be found that the boundary between the single-phase and vapor-liquid two phase regions shifts in the presence of capillary pressure, and then the area of each region changes accordingly. Furthermore, the effect of the nanopore size distribution on the phase behavior has been analyzed and a multi-scale scheme is presented based on literature reviews. Fluid properties including swelling factor, criticality, bubble point and volumetrics have been investigated thoroughly by comparing with the bulk fluid flow in a free channel.","PeriodicalId":34047,"journal":{"name":"Capillarity","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83731751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Local instabilities during capillary-dominated immiscible displacement in porous media","authors":"Yang Liu, S. Iglauer, Jianchao Cai, M. A. Amooie, C. Qin","doi":"10.26804/CAPI.2019.01.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26804/CAPI.2019.01.01","url":null,"abstract":"Fully understanding the mechanism of pore-scale immiscible displacement dominated by capillary forces, especially local instabilities and their influence on flow patterns, is essential for various industrial and environmental applications such as enhanced oil recovery, CO2 geo-sequestration and remediation of contaminated aquifers. It is well known that such immiscible displacement is extremely sensitive to the fluid properties and pore structure, especially the wetting properties of the porous medium which affect not only local interfacial instabilities at the micro-scale, but also displacement patterns at the macro-scale. In this review, local interfacial instabilities under three typical wetting conditions, namely Haines jump events during weakly-wetting drainage, snap-off events during strongly-wetting imbibition, and the co-existence of concave and convex interfaces under intermediate-wet condition, are reviewed to help understand the microscale physics and macroscopic consequences resulting in natural porous media.","PeriodicalId":34047,"journal":{"name":"Capillarity","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82480961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Recent advances in spontaneous imbibition with different boundary conditions","authors":"Qingbang Meng, Jianchao Cai","doi":"10.26804/capi.2018.03.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26804/capi.2018.03.01","url":null,"abstract":"Spontaneous imbibition plays an important role in many practical processes, such as oil recovery, hydrology, and environmental engineering. The development in spontaneous imbibition goes fast in the past few years. In this paper, we focus on boundary conditions of spontaneous imbibition, which has important effects on spontaneous imbibition rate and efficiency. We introduce the fundamental physical mechanism of spontaneous imbibition with different boundary conditions by capillary model. Then, the studies of spontaneous imbibition in core scale are reviewed. The feature of spontaneous imbibition with different boundary conditions is discussed and the relative permeability for co- and counter-current imbibition is analyzed. The scaling of imbibition data with different boundary condition is also discussed by combination of experimental and numerical methods. At last, the analytical model of spontaneous imbibition is discussed. Cited as : Meng, Q., Cai, J. Recent advances in  spontaneous imbibition with different  boundary conditions. Capillarity, 2018,  1(3): 19-26, doi:  10.26804/capi.2018.03.01","PeriodicalId":34047,"journal":{"name":"Capillarity","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87659556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The dynamic effect in capillary pressure during the displacement process in ultra-low permeability sandstone reservoirs","authors":"Ying Li, Haitao Li, Jianchao Cai, Qirui Ma, Jianfeng Zhang","doi":"10.26804/CAPI.2018.02.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26804/CAPI.2018.02.01","url":null,"abstract":"The relationship between the capillary pressure and saturation is a primary factor to describe and simulate the multiphase flow. This relationship is also fundamental to understand the characteristics of oil and gas reservoirs and make the reservoir development plan. Traditionally, the capillary pressure is measured under the equilibrium process; however, this equilibrium is hard to establish when the multiphase flow is expected in low to tight permeability porous media, and the capillary pressure is dynamic. This laboratory study conducts specially designed dynamic displacement experiments to examine the dynamic effect in capillary pressure in ultra-low permeability sandstone oil reservoirs. The dynamic capillary pressure, the dynamic relative permeabilities, the dynamic coefficient and the change rate of water saturation are obtained. Results show that the dynamic coefficient is relatively larger in ultra-low permeability reservoirs compared with that in high to low permeability reservoirs. Difference between the dynamic and the steady capillary pressures becomes more significant for less permeable porous media, with a higher dynamic coefficient and a stronger dynamic effect. Wettability advancement has been triggered during the dynamic displacement process, which is responsible for the water-wet rock before the displacement to be oil-wet during the displacement process. The difference between the dynamic and the steady relative permeabilities becomes obvious, and the dynamic effect in capillary pressure cannot be neglected when the permeability reaches ultra-low. The dynamic coefficient can reveal the shape of the displacement front. Cited as : Li, Y., Li, H., Cai, J., Ma, Q., Zhang, J. The dynamic effect in capillary pressure during the displacement process in ultra-low permeability sandstone reservoirs. Capillarity, 2018, 1(2): 11-18, doi: 10.26804/capi.2018.02.01.","PeriodicalId":34047,"journal":{"name":"Capillarity","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78120972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}