2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2015.07.015
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Fluid trapping during capillary displacement in fractures

Abstract: International audienceThe spatial distribution of fluid phases and the geometry of fluid-fluid interfaces resulting from immiscible displacement in fractures cast decisive influence on a range of macroscopic flow parameters. Most importantly, these are the relative permeabilities of the fluids as well as the macroscopic irreducible saturations. They also influence parameters for component (solute) transport, as it usually occurs through one of the fluid phase only. Here, we present a numerical investigation on… Show more

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“…A reason for this may be a pore throat spatial correlation at a length scale corresponding to this volume [cp. Yang et al , , Figures 7 and 8].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…A reason for this may be a pore throat spatial correlation at a length scale corresponding to this volume [cp. Yang et al , , Figures 7 and 8].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Also, one can see that for both empirical data sets there is a bent in the curves at approximately s = 100 voxels. A reason for this may be a pore throat spatial correlation at a length scale corresponding to this volume [cp Yang et al, 2015,. Figures 7 and 8].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…However, the fractured medium also showed its particularity. The two important properties of variable-aperture fractures, namely, in-plane curvature and out-of-plane (aperture induced) curvature, significantly affect the NAPL migration path and entrapped blob distribution (Glass et al, 1998;Yang et al, 2012a;Yang et al, 2015). The channel distribution on the fracture plane mainly determined the immiscible fluid distribution and migration paths, whereas the aperture changes in the fracture section resulted in truncated and trapped NAPL in the fracture.…”
Section: The Mechanism Of Lnapl Entrapmentmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Auradou et al (2003) numerically modeled P c in a vertical gouge-filled fracture but did not investigate the sensitivity of P c to the degree of fracture aperture heterogeneity. Other studies of drainage through rough fractures have focused, for example, in the quantification of amount of trapping of the defending phase (Yang et al, 2016) and crossover from capillary fingering to viscous fingering (Chen et al, 2017;Chen, Guo, Wu, et al, 2018;Chen, Wu, Fang, et al, 2018).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%