Steady-state properties of flow in porous media

WORK PACKAGE 3:

Objective: Establish a phase diagram for steady-state two-phase flow. Verify experimentally the equations based on non-equilibrium thermodynamics developed under WP1. Establish an experimental basis for introducing osmotic driving forces as described in WP5.

Simulation with reconstructed network from Berea sandstone 1,8 x 1,8 x 1,8 mm3. Picture courtesy: Santanu Sinha, Alex Hansen et.al., in preparation.

Principal Investigator WP3: Professor Knut Jørgen Måløy. Partners: Profs. Dick Bedeaux, Dag Dysthe, Eirik Grude Flekkøy, Alex Hansen, Signe Helene Kjelstrup, Laurent Talon, Ole Torsæter, Renaud Toussaint.

Description: In steady-state two-phase flow, the systems can either present a rich dynamics of fragmentation, motion and coalescence of single-phase fluid clusters, or have nearly frozen and immobile clusters.

 

 

 

 

Plenary lectures at international conferences and distinguished lectures

Media coverage

Selected articles before center launch

  1. M. Erpelding, S. Sinha, K.T. Tallakstad, A. Hansen, E.G. Flekkøy, and K.J. Måløy, History-independence of steady state in simultaneous two-phase flow through 2D porous media, Phys Rev. E. 88, 053004 (2013). doi: 10.1103
  2. O.Aursjø, H.A. Knudsen, E.G. Flekkøy, and K.J. Måløy, Oscillation induced displacement pattern in a two-dimensional porous medium: A lattice Boltzmann study, Phys. Rev. E. 82, 026305, (2010). doi:10.1103
  3. K.T. Tallakstad, H. A. Knnudsen, T. Ramstad, G. Løvoll, K. J. Måløy, R. Toussaint, and E. G. Flekkøy. Steady-State Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media: Statistics and Transport Properties. Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 074502, (2009). doi:https://doi.org/10.1103
  4. K.T. Tallakstad, G. Løvoll, H. A. Knudsen, T. Ramstad, E.G. Flekkøy and K.J. Måløy, Steady-state simultaneous two-phase flow in porous media: An experimental study, Phys. Rev. E. 80, 036308 (2009).

Selected articles from 2017

  1. Eriksen, Fredrik Kvalheim; Toussaint, Renaud; Turquet, Antoine Léo; Måløy, Knut Jørgen & Flekkøy, Eirik Grude (2017). Pneumatic fractures in confined granular media. Physical Review E. Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.  ISSN 1063-651X. . doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.95.062901
  2. Moura, Marcel; Måløy, Knut Jørgen & Toussaint, Renaud (2017). Critical behavior in porous media flow. Europhysics letters.  ISSN 0295-5075.  118(1) . doi:10.1209/0295-5075/118/14004
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